BGuthrie Photos: NC -- Roanoke -- Roanoke Canal Park -- Trail

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. RCANAT_150601_002.JPG: Sweetgum
2. RCANAT_150601_015.JPG: Loblolly Pine
3. RCANAT_150601_029.JPG: Japanese Honeysuckle
4. RCANAT_150601_054.JPG: So much for that sign
5. RCANAT_150601_057.JPG: Pokeweed
6. RCANAT_150601_066.JPG: The Power Canal Bulkhead: Harnessing River Power: The Great Falls Water Power Manufacturing and Improvement Company -- later known as the Roanoke Rapids Power Company -- built this bulkhead during the 1890s as part of their new power canal. This places them in direct competition with the Navigation Canal investors who were converting their adjacent but older canal onto a water power source at the same time. By 1900, both canals were competing to sell power to the growing manufacturing communities nearby. This structure, along with a series of dams and spillways built between a chain of small islands, created a reservoir from which the power canal received its water. Large gates controlled the flow, and excess water returned to the river via a spillway located to the north. This canal provided power until the mid-1950s when it was replaced by the modern hydroelectric dam less than a half-mile upstream. Since then, water has not flowed in either canal. Think about this: Which canal provided more power, the eight mile long but shallow Navigation Canal or the mile long but much deeper Power Canal? Two views of the Power Canal bulkhead and full reservoir around 1940. The reservoir was nearly thirty feed deep and twice as wide at the bulkhead. The Navigation Canal can be seen in the aerial photo at the far lower left.
7. RCANAT_150601_072.JPG: The reservoir was nearly thirty feed deep and twice as wide at the bulkhead. The Navigation Canal can be seen in the aerial photo at the far lower left.
8. RCANAT_150601_129.JPG: Bloodroot
9. RCANAT_150601_139.JPG: Ducks Along the Canal
10. RCANAT_150601_142.JPG: They were doing a major draining project
11. RCANAT_150601_159.JPG: The Navigation Canal Culverts: Rainwater Avenues: A culvert is a channel, tube, or tunnel under a road, canal, or other structure through which water can flow. This particular culvert was built between 1820 and 1824, and its purpose was to channel the runoff stream -- known as Span's Branch -- under the navigation canal. If the culvert had not been installed, storm water would have entered the canal instead, potentially causing flooding and erosion damage. The culvert was fashioned out of stone blocks cut by local masons. Records indicate that the passage was six feet high, three feet wide and nearly one hundred feet long. Stone retaining walls at each end supported the canal banks. Over the years, sediment has filled the culvert, leaving only the support walls exposed. Extensive erosion has also caused portions of the original passage to collapse but it remains operational, protecting the canal and tow path above from washing away. Think about this: Do engineers build culverts today and where can they be found?
12. RCANAT_150601_172.JPG: White Oak
13. RCANAT_150601_189.JPG: Roanoke Canal: Canal and locks completed around river rapids, 1834. Highway crosses canal route here. A lock is 200 feet south.
14. RCANAT_150601_203.JPG: Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District Waste Water Treatment Plant
Wikipedia Description: Roanoke Canal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roanoke Canal is a historic canal located near Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built as part of the Roanoke Navigation System and extends from Roanoke Rapids Lake southeast seven miles to the canal's return into the Roanoke River at Weldon, North Carolina. The Roanoke Navigation System was planned to connect the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. The earliest sections were built under the direction of civil engineer Hamilton Fulton. Extant structures include the middle or lift locks, the aqueduct (1821-1823), and the three-story brick mill (1892) and powerhouse (c. 1904).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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