{"id":186,"date":"2015-09-05T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2015-10-22T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:46:17","slug":"pittsford-june-17-to-june-18-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/shearwater-iv\/shearwater-iv\/erie-canal-june-11-19-2015\/pittsford-june-17-to-june-18-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmyra – June 18, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aqueduct Park marks the site where the Erie Canal crosses Oak Orchard Creek. The structure was constructed of local Medina sandstone and topped with a wooden trestle that carried the canal water over the creek water at a low\"20150618er elevation. \u00a0While the structures\u00a0no longer exist, the builder of the canal constructed gates that would\u00a0be closed in the event the trestle developed an unmanageable leak. \u00a0Not shown in the photo is a separate smaller bridge that carryied the mules hauling canal boats on their several hundred mile trip.
\n\"20150618<\/a>The latest reconstruction of the canal came after power driven steam and then diesel tugs were in use pushing and pulling the barges. \u00a0 Much of the wood near the canal was lumbered \"20150618<\/a>to power the early steam engines.<\/p>\n

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Lock 60 is a historic treasure because it is one of the few lock systems remaining.<\/p>\n

\"20150618The structure shows clearly how the water level was dropped from higher level\u00a0to the lower level in the foreground. \u00a0Locks could only drop or raise the \"20150618<\/a>water level\u00a0by a few feet at a time because of the engineering limitations of wooden structures that were manually operated. \u00a0The present lock system can raise or lower craft 20 to 30 feet so there are far less locks required than during the original construction. \u00a0The plaque below shows the three reconstruction dates where the canal was rebuilt. .<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a> \"20150618<\/a> \"20150618<\/a> \"20150618Lock 30 lowered our chartered home and boat from Palmyra back to the level (called a pool) of Mid-Lakes Navigation where we started and ended this wondrous journey back in time.
\nOur Diesel Powered “time machine” traveled back a hundred years to the time when people built major structures by hand and moved the country’s food and supplies by their own hands with the power of animals.\"20150618<\/a>
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Aqueduct Park marks the site where the Erie Canal crosses Oak Orchard Creek. The structure was constructed of local Medina sandstone and topped with a wooden trestle that carried the canal water over the creek water at a lower elevation. \u00a0While the structures\u00a0no longer exist, the builder of the canal constructed gates that would\u00a0be closed … Continue reading Palmyra – June 18, 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"parent":20,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-186","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/186\/revisions\/315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shearwater-sailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}