Champlain Canal

Yeah

... right across from the Champlain Canal lock-

Mm-hmm

... on the left up on a hill, but it's a private residence that, you know, all of these people, that's another relatable but unrelatable almost-

... um, from both the fixed Saratoga Revolutionary Experience site-

Yep

... that will be co-located in the c- Champlain Canal Visitor Center, which you can get a sneak peek of at Siege Weekend.

Yes.

It was also occupied by Burgoyne in 1777, being situated near the old fort, on the left bank of the Hudson.

During the winter I was employed with others repairing the Champlain Canal, in that section over which William Van Nortwick was superintendent.

David McEachron had the immediate charge of the men in whose company I labored.

By the time the canal opened in the spring, I was enabled, from the savings of my wages, to purchase a pair of horses, and other things necessarily required in the business of navigation.

He scouted the idea; but Ford, when I laid it before him, received it favorably, and permitted me to try the experiment.

Having removed the obstructions, I made up a narrow raft, consisting of twelve cribs.

At this business I think I was quite skillful, not having forgotten my experience years before on the Champlain canal.

I labored hard, being extremely anxious to succeed, both from a desire to please my master, and to show Adam Tatum that my scheme was not such a visionary one as he incessantly pronounced it.

Harry knew that, in order to pass through the locks, it would be necessary to pay toll, and to procure an order from the canal authorities directing the lockmen to permit the White Wing to pass.

the canal boatman of whom he made inquiries told him where to find the office which was some little distance up the canal when the office was reached an officer came and inspected the boat asked a great many questions about the cruise up the hudson and seemed to be very much interested in the expedition he told the boys that the water was low in the champlain canal and that the lockmen might not be willing to open the locks for so small a boat, but that they could avoid all dispute by entering the locks at the same time with some one of the many canal boats that were on their way north.

He charged the White Wing the enormous sum of twenty-five cents for tolls, and gave Harry an important looking order, by which the lockmen were directed to allow the skiff White Wing, Captain Harry Wilson, to pass through all the locks on the canal.

thanking the pleasant officer the boys pushed off after they had passed the place where the champlain canal branches off from the erie canal they were no longer troubled by a crowd of canal boats and were able to set the sail again unluckily the mast was just a little too high to pass under the bridges and at the first bridge which they met they narrowly escaped to capsize, Jim succeeding in getting the mast down only just in time to save it from striking the bridge.

They had hardly set sail again when another bridge came in sight, and they could see just beyond it a third bridge.

It would never do to stop at every bridge and unship the mast, so Harry went on shore, borrowed a saw from a cooper's shop, and sawed six inches off from the top of the mast, after which the bridges gave them no more trouble.

They have a whole catered dinner going under a tent on the back of the biggest tug of all, which is the Sarah D.

So the Sarah D mostly shepherds barges full of gravel from a gravel pit up on Lake on the Champlain canal down to New York city construction projects.

And that's their main bread and butter is shipping rocks, gravel to construction sites by barge, which is the most efficient and cheapest way to ship a very heavy cargo, just as it was in 1825 when the Erie canal opened, it's still true today.

So, uh, so that's, and they, they also, uh, you know, ship giant generators for General Electric.