Photo by Rebecca Nowalski
Author and local historian Linda J. Barth demonstrates how boats used to alert bridge tenders of their approach and introduced attendees to the people, bridges, locks and aqueducts that made the Delaware & Raritan Canal work recently during a presentation at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System in East Windsor, N.J. For more than 170 years, the Delaware and Raritan Canal was one of the nation’s most successful towpath canals, carrying more tonnage in 1866 than the more famous Erie Canal. The event was sponsored by Friends of the Hickory Corner Library.
