List Of Canals In Massachusetts

This list is intended to contain all significant

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, USA. It includes both vanished waterways and those that still exist. * Blackstone Canal, Grafton *

Broad Canal Broad Canal is a short canal in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, previously larger and part of the now-vanished canal system that made Cambridge an active seaport. The canal began in 1806 when Henry Hill, Rufus Davenport, and others laid out a can ...

, Cambridge * Broad Brook Canal, Ludlow * Cape Cod Canal, Sagamore * First Level Canal, Holyoke *

Fort Point Channel Fort Point Channel is a maritime channel separating South Boston from downtown Boston, Massachusetts, feeding into Boston Harbor. The south part of it has been gradually filled in for use by the South Bay rail yard and several highways (specif ...

, Boston *

Hampshire and Hampden Canal The Hampshire and Hampden Canal was the Massachusetts segment of an canal that once connected New Haven, Connecticut, to the Connecticut River north of Northampton, Massachusetts. Its Connecticut segment was called the Farmington Canal. The ...

, Hampshire and Hampden Counties * Hecla Canal, Blackstone *

Lechmere Canal Lechmere Canal is a short canal in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It opens onto the Charles River and used to be an active port for Boston Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. History The canal was constructed in 1895, essentially by walling off an ex ...

, Cambridge * Lowell canals ** Eastern Canal ** Hamilton Canal ** Lawrence Wasteway ** Massachusetts Wasteway ** Merrimack Canal ** Merrimack Wasteway ** Northern Canal ** Pawtucket Canal ** Western Canal * Long Pond Canal, Lakeville * Madaket Ditch, Nantucket * Mattakeset Herring Creek, Edgartown *

Middlesex Canal The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. When operational it was 30 feet (9.1 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) deep, with 20 locks, each 80 feet (24 m) long and between 10 and ...

, Middlesex County * Mill River Diversion, Easthampton *

Mother Brook Mother Brook is a stream that flows from the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the Hyde Park section of Boston, Massachusetts. Mother Brook was also known variously as East Brook and Mill Creek in earlier times. ...

, Dedham * North Canal, Lawrence *

Northfield Mountain Tailrace Tunnel The Northfield Mountain Tailrace Tunnel is a tunnel linking the Northfield Mountain pumped-storage hydroelectric facility to the Connecticut River in Millers Falls, Massachusetts. References Northeast Generation Company SEC Filing, 12/6/01 { ...

, Millers Falls * Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, Beverly * Second Level Canal, Holyoke *

South Hadley Canal The South Hadley Canal was a canal along the Connecticut River in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the earliest navigable canal in the United States, with operation commencing in 1795. * It has been listed on the National Register of Historic ...

, South Hadley *

Third Level Canal The Holyoke Canal System is a system of power canals in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It is split into three canals based on elevation and distance from the inlet at the Holyoke Dam- the First Level Canal, Second Level Canal, and Third Level Canal. Cons ...

, Holyoke *

Turners Falls Canal The Turners Falls Canal, also historically known as the Montague Canal, was a canal along the Connecticut River in Montague, Massachusetts. It was reconstructed in 1869. The canal was first completed in 1798 by the Proprietors of the Upper Locks ...

, Turners Falls {{US canals *

Canals Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...