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The following is a List of canals in the United States1 Transportation Canals in operation
The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.
2 Abandoned transportation canals
- Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Bellows Falls Canal
- Blackstone Canal
- Cayuga and Seneca Canal
- Champlain Canal
- Chenango Canal
- Clinton-Kalamazoo CanalThe Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal is an abandoned canal in Michigan that was only partially completed. The canal was to connect Lake St. Clair with Lake Michigan. The inspiration came from the success of the Erie Canal in New York, which was completed in 1825. (only partially completed)
- Cross-Florida Barge CanalThe Cross-Florida Barge Canal was a canal project to connect the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean across Florida for barge traffic. The idea of such a canal was first proposed by Philip II of Spain in 1567. It was repeatedly considered over the years (partially completed)
- Delaware and Hudson Canal
- Des Moines Rapids Canal
- Hennepin Canal
- Hocking Canal
- Illinois and Michigan CanalThe Illinois and Michigan Canal ran 97 miles (155 km) from the Bridgeport neighborhood in Chicago on the Chicago River to Peru, Illinois on the Illinois River. It was finished in 1848 and allowed boat transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi
- Little Falls Canal
- Miami Canal
- Miami and Erie CanalThe Miami and Erie Canal was a canal that connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio with Lake Erie in Toledo, Ohio. It consisted of 19 aqueducts, 3 guard locks and 103 lift locks. Eack lock measured 90 by 15 feet and they collectively raised the canal
- Middlesex Canal
- Milan Canal
- Morris CanalThe Morris Canal was a canal and series of water-driven inclined plane railroads that ran across northern New Jersey in the United States from the middle of the 19th century until the 1920s. Introduction One of the most significant transportation projects (New Jersey)
- Ohio and Erie Canal
- Oswego Canal
- Pawtucket Canal
- Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works
- Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
- Sandy and Beaver Canal
- Santee Canal
- Savannah Ogeechee Canal
- Schuylkill Navigation
- South Hadley Canal
- Union CanalThe Union Canal was towpath canal that existed in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States during the 19th century. First proposed in 1690 to connect Philadephia with the Susquehanna River, it ran approximately 75 mi (120 km) from Middletown on the
- Wabash and Erie CanalThe Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal in Indiana that linked the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via a man-made waterway. After Congress provided a land grant in 1827 for the canal's construction, it was operated by the Wabash and Erie Canal
- Walhonding Canal
- Whitewater Canal
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