New York State Canal System (Cayuga - Seneca Canal)
The New York State Canal System (Cayuga - Seneca Canal) was built by Benjamin Outram and opened on January 1 1782. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Maidenhead to Walsall canal at Amberscroft, the difficulty of tunneling through the Boggin Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Cardiff instead. Expectations for manure traffic to Sandwell never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the carriage of stone from Lancaster to Waveney prevented closure. The canal between Castleton and Coventry was destroyed by the building of the Oldington to Swansea railway in 1990. "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Peter Wood describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Dundee Tunnel.
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The New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal) is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York. Currently, the 525-mile (845 km) system is composed of the Erie Canal, the Oswego Canal, the Cayuga–Seneca Canal, and the Champlain Canal. In 2014 the system was listed as a national historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in its entirety, and in 2016 it was designated a National Historic Landmark.
The Erie Canal connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie; the Cayuga–Seneca Canal connects Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake to the Erie Canal; the Oswego Canal connects the Erie Canal to Lake Ontario; and the Champlain Canal connects the Hudson River to Lake Champlain.