Erie Canal aqueduct Camillus
— a canal carried across a creek on stone.
Not only on a wall.
“Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct, the only fully restored navigable aqueduct left on the Erie Canal. Built in 1841 when the state widened the original ditch, abandoned when the canal moved north in the 1910s, and brought back over twenty-five years of volunteer work that finished in 2009. The boat from the visitor center carries you across the trough on stone piers, with the creek running fifteen feet below.
Erie Canal aqueduct Camillus, on ceramic.
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The Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct sits in Camillus, New York, about eight miles west of Syracuse in Onondaga County. It is the only navigable restored aqueduct on the Erie Canal, carrying the canal channel 141 feet across Nine Mile Creek on three stone piers. The structure is part of Camillus Erie Canal Park, a seven-mile preserved stretch of the 1862 enlarged canal alignment, with a visitor center at Devoe Road and a Sims Store museum reconstructed on the original towpath.
The aqueduct was first built in 1841 during the first enlargement of the Erie Canal, when the original four-foot-deep ditch of 1825 was widened and deepened to seven feet to carry larger boats. The piers and abutments are dressed limestone, quarried locally. The wooden trough that holds the water was replaced during the restoration, faithful to the original profile. The whole structure was abandoned in 1917 when the New York State Barge Canal rerouted the channel several miles to the north along the Seneca River.
Camillus Erie Canal Park is open throughout the year; the aqueduct and Sims Store museum operate from May through October. Volunteer-run boat tours leave from the Sims Store dock and last about seventy-five minutes, crossing the aqueduct and continuing west along the towpath. There is no fee to walk the trail, and a modest donation supports the boat. The visitor center sits at 5750 Devoe Road. The restoration project ran from 1984 to 2009.