Emma Florio
Object Study
Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship
July 22, 2013
South Hadley Canal Lottery Ticket, ca. 1804/5
• 1792 - The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on
the Connecticut River appointed by general court
• To navigate the river around the Great Falls
• Local and international funding
Bill Owens, 2009 [http://newenglandphotos.blogspot.com/2009/11/south-hadley-canal.html]
• Opened April 1795
• Less traffic by 1843
• Closed in 1862
• Inclined plane - “Hampshire Machine”
instead of a series of locks
• Replaced by locks in 1805
Bill Owens, 2009 [http://newenglandphotos.blogspot.com/2009/11/south-hadley-canal.html]
January 2, 1805
April 3, 1805
May 29, 1805
[http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5654578]
[http://www.earlyamerican.com/Auctions/ClientPages/lots.item.php?auction=85&lot=1248]
[http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/fin_aids/jarvis_f.htm]