The New York Barge Canal is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York. Currently, the New York Barge Canal is composed of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, and the Champlain Canal. Other canal systems in the state were allowed to deteriorate, already having been superseded by other transporation modes.
The canal system can accommodate vessels up to 2000 tons (1800 metric tons), but very few commercial vessels use the canal, and it is mainly used for recreation and leisure.
A Landscape Transformed: Lock 4 Canal Park documents the construction of Champlain BargeCanal Lock 4, and the alteration of the junction of the Hoosic and Hudson Rivers.
Lock 4 Canal Park, owned by the NewYorkStateCanal Corporation, is located in the Town of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, at Lock 4 of the Champlain division, where the Hoosic River enters the Hudson opposite Stillwater.
BargeCanal records held by the NewYorkState Archives are used to document these land changes and the canal construction process.
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