{"id":912,"date":"2013-10-09T03:49:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=912"},"modified":"2013-10-25T06:27:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T06:27:24","slug":"the-new-jersey-ship-canal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgans-people-places\/things\/the-new-jersey-ship-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Ship Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Jersey Ship Canal \u2013 It Never Happened<\/h3>\n
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Present Day Location of What Would Have Been the Bordentown Terminus of the NJ Ship Canal.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the early part of the Twentieth Century, starting during the time period when the United States was building the Panama Canal, a plan to build a third trans-New Jersey canal, named the New Jersey Ship Canal, was in the works.\u00a0 Unlike the existing Morris Canal or Delaware & Raritan Canal, which were constructed in the early 1800\u2019s, had locks to accommodate the geography, and were nearing the end of their usage; this canal was ultimately intended to be a sea level canal where the lone lock was to be for the purpose of protection from \u201cSpring freshets\u201d.\u00a0 This canal, if it had been built, would have very much altered how Morgan would later develop as this canal was planned run between Morgan and Bordentown.\u00a0 Today\u2019s Morgan would be a very different place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Proposed Route of the New Jersey Ship Canal, 1911. Morgan Would be in Map #11. Image Courtesy of the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library.
http:\/\/hdl.rutgers.edu\/1782.1\/rucore00000002110.Map.000060918<\/p><\/div>\n

The New Jersey Ship Canal was envisioned as another link in an already existing extensive network of primarily inland waterways connecting the industrial northeast between Norfolk, Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts.\u00a0 As had what always seemed to be the tradition of the state of New Jersey, this canal would link what was then the largest ship building center in the world (Philadelphia, PA) with the then largest city in the world (New York, NY).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was envisioned that this canal would allow for freight costs to go down, especially for coal which was the primary source of energy in homes and factories at the time, by:<\/p>\n