A friend sent along a chapter from the 1923 New York Walk Book. Abe Books describes the book as, “Suggestions for excursion afoot within a radius of fifty to one hundred miles of the city and including Westchester County, the Highlands of the Hudson and the Ramapo, northern and central New Jersey and the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Long Island, the Shawangunk Range, the Catskills and the Taconics.”
This edition includes a walk along the Morris Canal, which in 1923, was still “functioning”. I use the quotes, as it was in fairly bad shape by this time. However as the narrative suggests, it was hoped that the state would preserve it as a museum piece. Of course, this did not happen. In 1925, the aqueduct seen in this image was blown up. Here is the short chapter and map.
