Erie Canal: Baldwinsville, near Syracuse, between Rochester and Rome, NY

 

We live in Baldwinsville, NE of Syracuse, at Lock 24 on the Navigable Erie Canal. Canalway Trail, which largely follows the Old Canal, can be easily from Camillus, south of us.  The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, was the "longest artificial waterway and the greatest public works project in North America." (https://eriecanalway.org/learn/history-culture)

Author Lisa Saunders is seen on the Seneca River, along the modern Erie Canal, in  Baldwinsville, New York, where she now lives with her husband Jim. The sign welcomes boaters coming from the direction of Buffalo to Lock 24 where they will be lowered 11 feet, as in an elevator, to the next leg of their journey eastward toward Albany.  Lisa and Jim love strolling beside and above Lock 24 to watch boaters from all over world make their way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. (Lock 24 is the second busiest lock on the modern Erie Canal. 

See drone footage and video: life, past and present, at Lock 24.)

Images of Baldwinsville

Here is the metal drop gate down in the water. It's usually high in the air and rusty looking on the side coming from the  Buffalo direction.