Massachusetts & Rhode Island

Massachusetts & Rhode Island

Canal Index Pages

Note: Canals listed in green below do not yet have index sheets.  They are listed here to make the list more complete.  It is intended to add index sheets for them in the future.   Canals in blue and underlined have index sheets which are accessible by double clicking on the hyperlink.

• Blackstone Canal     (Massachusetts & Rhode Island)
  • Blackstone CanaL & Strutures (Revised 7/30/18)
  • Blackstone Canal mileposts (New 7/29/18)
  •  Structures
    • The Cove (Providence, RI) (New 7/30/18)
    • Lock # 5, Below Mineral Springs Ave, (Providence, RI) (New 7/30/18)
    • 3 Locks 7 – 9, below Scotts Pond (Lincoln, RI) (Revised 7/30/18)
    • 3 Locks (# 11 -13) at (Manville, RI) (Revised 7/30/18)
    • Millville Lock # 21 (Millville, MA) (Revised 7/30/18)
    • Skull Rock Lock # 22 (Uxbridge, MA) (Revised 7/29/18)
    • Lower and Upper Taft Locks  # 23 & 24 below Uxbridge, MA (Revised 7/29/18)
    • Mumford River Aqueduct  (Uxbridge, MA) (Revised 7/30/18)
    • Hartford Avenue Bridge & Dam (Uxbridge, MA) (Revised 7/30/18)
    • Goat Hill Lock # 25 (Northbridge, MA) (Revised 7/31/18)
    • Church Street Lock # 26, (Northbridge, MA) (Revised 7/31/18)
    • Lock # 35 (Millbury, MA) (Added 7/31/18)
    • Lock # 48 Kelly Square, (Worcester, MA) (Added 7/31/18)

• Other Massachusetts canals
  • Blynman Canal  (New 12/31/10)
  • Cape Cod Canal
  • Cambridge Canals (Added to list 2/11/05)
    • Broad Canal
    • Lechmere Canal
    • Portland Canal
    • South Canal
  • Charles River Lock (old)
  • Charles River Locks (new)
  • Connecticut River (See also Connecticut & Vermont)
    • South Hadley Falls Canal (with inclined plane)
    • Turners Falls Canal (Montague Canal) also French King Canal (New 1/5/11)
  • Cut River
  • Fox Creek Canal
  • Hampshire & Hampton (the Massachusetts part of New Haven & Northampton Canal)  Revised 6/25/14
  • Jeremiah’s Gutter  (Cape Cod) (New 1/4/11)
  • Middlesex Canal
    • Middlesex Canal (overall route) (Revised 2/15/05)
    • Middlesex Canal (Restored section in Wilmington)
  • Mill Creek Canal (Boston) (New 2/13/05)
  • Mother Brook  (An early hydraulic canal)  (New 1/3/11)
  • Mystic River Locks
  • Merrimack River (Also see New Hampshire)
    • North Canal, Lawrence, MA
    • Pawtucket Canal, Lowell, MA
    • Wickassee Falls
  • Roxbury
  • Wankinco River Canal

• Other Rhode Island Canals
  • Mouscochuck Canal, RI
• Never completed canals connecting to the Connecticut River  (New 1/8/11) (see VT)

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Please note that these are the actual pages done in the early 1970’s.  Changes have occurred since and there are some inaccuracies in the information on the pages.

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Revised 8/29/11