D&H Canal Museum (8/12/2024)

Monday, August 12, 2024

A visit to the D&H Canal Museum in High Falls, NY.

Map of the route of the D&H Canal built by a coal company
that wanted to transport its product to New York City

The museum was located in the former DePuy Tavern (1797),
with hand-hewn wooden beams

In 1850 the tavern was purchased to be the D&H 
Company offices, and in 2022 opened as the museum

Working model of a lock

Working model of the gravity railroad that carried the
coal down the mountain to the canal

Model (1984, by Abe W Mathews) of a
150-ton capacity canal boat (c 1851) 

Tavern room

DePuy Tavern, then D&H Company offices with
Hoggee and Mule sculpture (by Annie O’Neill)
depicting a girl mule driver called by the directions she
gives the mule, i.e., haw means right and gee means left

New Lock 16 (1850) was built when the
locks were enlarged to 90' wide

It started to rain, so we skipped the Five Locks Walk.