Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center
The Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center is an interpretive center and open-air village located on the banks of the Wabash and Erie Canal in Delphi in the U.S. state of Indiana. The interpretive center includes a model canal with a miniature reservoir, aqueduct, lock, and gristmill. The model canal boat Gen. Grant shows the type of boats that carried freight on the canal during its final years of full-scale operation from the 1860s to 1874. The visitor center was opened in 2003.[1]
The interpretive center is operated by the Wabash & Erie Canal Association, a community nonprofit organization dedicated to Indiana's canal heritage. The center serves as a physical focus for enjoyment of a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) segment of the canal that has been rebuilt and reopened as a waterway and parallel towpath.[2] Most of the 1843 canal went out of service over the following 30-year period as railroads replaced canals as carriers of freight. Only fragments of the original waterway remain.[3]
The museum is open daily, and an admission fee is charged. The address of the Canal Interpretive Center is 1030 W. Washington Street in Delphi, Indiana.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Museum Hours". wabashanderiecanal.org. Wabash and Erie Canal Association. 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ^ "Wabash and Erie Canal". wabashanderiecanal.org. Wabash and Erie Canal Association. 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ^ "The Canal Dream". wabashanderiecanal.org. Wabash and Erie Canal Association. 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.