I had the best day today! I bought a book about the canals of New York State, and so decided to drive an hour or so down to Nunda to look for the ruins of the Genesee Valley Canal locks. The canal stretched 125 miles from the Erie Canal in Rochester to the Allegheny river near the Pennsylvania border. Construction started in 1836. It was an engineering marvel in its day, completed in 1868 but abandoned by 1872 - replaced by railroads. The cool thing is, that there are the ruins of about 6 stone locks in great condition that can be seen by hiking a quarter of a mile, from lock to lock.
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