Raritan and Delaware Canal
The Raritan and Delaware Canal is an approximately 106 km long canal in New Jersey ( USA ) that connects the Raritan River near New Brunswick with the Delaware River near Bordentown .
It was built from 1830 to 1834 and was in operation until 1932; it was additionally fed with water via a side canal near Trenton connected from the north . In 1974, large sections of the canal were declared a state park .
literature
- Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park , brochure, New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, State Park Service, 7/2002
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Coordinates: 40 ° 24 ′ 21 ″ N , 74 ° 38 ′ 1 ″ W.