Arcadia Publishing

    Two volumes on the
Delaware and Raritan Canal
  The Delaware and Raritan Canal, an Arcadia “Images of
America” book, by Linda J. Barth, features nearly 200 historic
photographs and postcards of this waterway, one of the most
successful towpath canals in the United States.  
  Did you know that for almost 170 years, the Delaware and
Raritan Canal has meandered across the narrow waist of New
Jersey? Did you know that the D&R was one of our nation’s most
successful towpath canals, carrying more tonnage in 1866 than
the more famous Erie Canal? Did you know that Johnson &
Johnson, Roebling, and Fleischmann’s Distillery all had their
start along the D&R? Did you know that the canal provides the
people of central New Jersey with both a water supply and a
premier recreational facility?
   The Delaware and Raritan Canal introduces you to the people,
the locks, and the aqueducts that made the canal work. This
waterway, now the centerpiece of a popular state park,
transported men and supplies between New York and
Philadelphia during three wars. Inventor John Holland used the
canal to deliver his Holland VI submarine to Washington for its
Navy trials, and luxury yachts, like J .P. Morgan’s Tarantula,
cruised the waterway.  The Delaware and Raritan Canal will
introduce you to this gem of central New Jersey.
To order your copy of The Delaware and
Raritan Canal, send your check, payable to
the author, for $19.95 plus $3.05 tax and
shipping, to Linda J. Barth, 214 North Bridge
Street, Somerville, NJ 08876. For further
information, please call 908-722-7428.
  The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work, an Arcadia
“Images of America” book by Linda J. Barth, follows on the
footsteps of the successful first edition of The Delaware and
Raritan Canal. This follow-up book visits many of the
businesses that operated along the canal, including farms,
food packing companies, rubber reclaiming plants, coal
yards, quarries, Johnson & Johnson, and Atlantic Terra Cotta.
  Volume II, The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work, also
details the “nuts and bolts” of how the canal operated and the
vessels that used the waterway. The unusual machinery of
the canal – locks, swing bridges, aqueducts, spill gates – is
depicted in detail. This sequel brings to the reader many new
views of this famous waterway, one of the most successful
towpath canals in the United States.
To order your copy of The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work,
send your check, payable to the author, for $19.95 plus $3.05 tax
and shipping, to Linda J. Barth, 214 North Bridge Street,
Somerville, NJ 08876. For further information, please call
908-722-7428.