Old Towpaths Author:Alvin F. Harlow This amazing history of the United States canal system from the very beginning to the very end! Lots of excellent photos, maps and other drawings of various canals and life on the canals. This history covers all aspects of canals: ancestry, building, the heyday and the decline and demise. Canals discussed in detail are: Erie, Pennsylvania S... more »tate Canals, New England Canals, the Lehigh, Deleware Division Canals, the Morris, James River and Kanawaha, Chesepeake, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. Engineering, traveling and living on the canals.« less