Delmarva Waterway
the canal consisted of grains, flour and lumber from the vast timber lands of western Maryland and Pennsylvania. Rafts were used to transport large amounts of lumber down the Susquehanna River to the Chesapeake Bay, and thence to the canal, where the destinations were the Delaware River, Philadelphia and the Raritan Canal in New Jersey. The booming markets of Philadelphia and New York City were now much more accessible to the grain farms, flour mills and timberlands of the inner Mid-Atlantic region. Traffic in the early days moved largely on crudely constructed wooden barges, but later barges with sails, called “rams� were built
nal craze was the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in 1829. This channel was 13.6 miles long, 10 feet deep, and 36 feet wide. Four locks, equipped with gates, allowed the water level to be raised or lowered. Barges, pulled by mules or horses, and shallow-draft schooners transported goods on the canal from the Chesapeake region to Delaware City on the Delaware River. The cost of the construction was $2,201, 864. Tolls, at first, amounted to about $100 a day, but as traffic increased, they rose to between $1,180 to $3,000 a week. Much of the early commerce on
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