Canals -- New Jersey

Scope and Contents Box 3: Canals: "The Electrification of the Morris Canal" by Ford Kurtz (1911); correspondence related to the Morris Canal (1912); copy of bill in state legislature to provide for state ownership of the Morris and Essex Canal ; "The Morris Canal on Postcards" compiled by C. Wolff GSPCC Hi-Lites Show Special Sept 1975Cemeteries: The Evergreen Cemetery (Dedicatory Address of The Rev. David Magie, D.D., including Certificate of Incorporation and Rules and Regulations,...

Scope and Contents File labeled as "N.J. Canals" contains booklets, "Appeal of Commodore R.F. Stockton to the People of New Jersey, in relation to the Existing Contracts between the State and the United Delaware and Raritan and Camden and Amboy Railroad Companies (1849)," and "Speech of Hon. John M.Read at the Regular Quarterly Meeting of the Joint Board of Directors of the United Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, and New Jersey Railroad and...

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Glass plate negatives showing the Newark Library (and one school library) in the early 20th century, then misc. glass negatives, then several negatives by William F. Cone.

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This small collection of material deals with the Morris Canal in Newark and the Newark City Subway, which was built in the bed of the canal after it shut down. It was donated by Ronald L. Rice, the map archivist of the Canal Society of New Jersey, who has a long-standing interest in the history of the now-defunct Morris Canal. The collection also includes some records from the former Essex County Jail on Lock Street in Newark, which once stood alongside the canal.