High Falls, NY

On our way to Albany last week, we decided to stop at High Falls, NY to check out the remnants of the D&H Canal there.  It's the eastern end of the canal (the Hudson River end).  We live on the western end of what's left of the canal (the Delaware River end).

It was rather disappointing.  The literature given out by the museum there gives the impression that you'll take a trip  back in time and see the canal as it was.  Not true.  As on the western end, its been allowed to deteriorate.  There were 4 bridges built on the canal that were built by Roebling in 1848.  The same Roebling who built the Brooklyn Bridge (as well as a lesser know bridge over Niagara Falls).  We've seen 3 of the bridges (2 in Lackawaxen, 1 of which we cross every day, and 1 in Cuddebackville NY).  Seems you can't visit the Roebling in High Falls without a permit from the museum which is only open after May 1.  If it's in the same shape as the locks, I can wait to see it.

We enjoyed ourselves.  We both love a little history.

Depuy Canal House, High Falls, NY (based on ratings on the web, the food is crap)

SWMBO insisted we have a picture of the old guy.

The Grandma (aka, She Who Must Be Obeyed)

Ruins of the General Store.  Everyone needs a place to shop.

Amazingly, the black mark in the middle of this photo was made by a black powder charge when the canal was widened in 1848.  Fifty years of water and another 115 years of being open to the air haven't worn it away.