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The '''Cape Cod Canal''' is an artificial waterway in |
The '''Cape Cod Canal''' is an artificial waterway in [[Massachusetts]] connecting [[Cape Cod Bay]] in the north to [[Buzzards Bay]] in the south, and is part of the [[Intracoastal Waterway|Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway]]. The approximately {{convert|7.4|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} canal traverses the neck of land joining [[Cape Cod]] to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to {{convert|480|ft|m}} and deepened to {{convert|32|ft|m}} at mean low water, shaving up to {{convert|135|mi|km}} off the journey around the cape for its approximately 14,000 annual users.<ref>{{Cite web |last = New England District |date = November 12, 2015 |title = Cape Cod Canal (Buzzards Bay and Sandwich, Mass.) |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/CapeCodCanal.aspx |access-date = February 24, 2016 |publisher = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers }}</ref> |
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Most of the canal is located in the town of [[Bourne, Massachusetts]], but its northeastern terminus is in [[Sandwich, Massachusetts|Sandwich]]. [[Scusset Beach State Reservation]] lies near the canal's north entrance, and the [[Massachusetts Maritime Academy]] is near its south. A swift-running current changes direction every six hours and can reach {{convert|5.2|mph|km/h}} during the receding ebb tide |
Most of the canal is located in the town of [[Bourne, Massachusetts|Bourne]], but its northeastern terminus is in [[Sandwich, Massachusetts|Sandwich]]. [[Scusset Beach State Reservation]] lies near the canal's north entrance, and the [[Massachusetts Maritime Academy]] is near its south. A swift-running current changes direction every six hours and can reach {{convert|5.2|mph|km/h}} during the receding ebb tide. |
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The waterway is maintained by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] and has no toll fees.<ref name="canal-nav">{{Cite web |title = Cape Cod Canal |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/navigation/navigation.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090618002030/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/Navigation/navigation.htm |archive-date = June 18, 2009 |access-date = May 23, 2009 |publisher = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers }}</ref> It is spanned by the [[Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge]], the [[Bourne Bridge]], and the [[Sagamore Bridge]]. Traffic lights at either end govern the approach of vessels over {{convert|65|ft|m}}. |
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The canal is occasionally used by whales and dolphins,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pearson |first=Samantha |title=Dolphins in Cape Cod Canal Saturday |publisher=[[WBZ-TV]] |location=Boston |type=Video |url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/7529217-dolphins-in-cape-cod-canal-saturday-courtesy-samantha-pearson/}}</ref> including endangered [[North Atlantic right whale]]s; these can cause closure of the canal.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bragg |first=Mary Ann |date=May 9, 2015 |title=Cape Cod Canal closed after right whale sighting |work=[[Cape Cod Times]] |url=http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150509/news11/150509397}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Favorite Places |url=http://capecodcyclist.8k.com/cccanal.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908100604/http://capecodcyclist.8k.com/cccanal.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2008 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
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The canal is occasionally used by whales and dolphins,<ref>{{Cite news |last = Pearson |first = Samantha |title = Dolphins in Cape Cod Canal Saturday |publisher = [[WBZ-TV]] |location = Boston |type = Video |url = http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/7529217-dolphins-in-cape-cod-canal-saturday-courtesy-samantha-pearson/ }}</ref> including endangered [[North Atlantic right whale]]s, which can cause closure of the canal.<ref>{{Cite news |last = Bragg |first = Mary Ann |date = May 9, 2015 |title = Cape Cod Canal closed after right whale sighting |work = [[Cape Cod Times]] |url = http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150509/news11/150509397 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title = Favorite Places |url = http://capecodcyclist.8k.com/cccanal.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080908100604/http://capecodcyclist.8k.com/cccanal.htm |archive-date = September 8, 2008 }}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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[[File:Canal du Cap-Cod (Massachusetts), 1834 map.jpg|thumb|left|Early plan (1834) that indicates a route different from what was actually constructed {{in lang|fr}}]] |
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Construction of a canal was first considered by [[Myles Standish]] of the [[Plymouth Colony]] in 1623, and the [[Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony)|Pilgrims]] scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and Scusset rivers for potential routes. [[William Bradford (Plymouth governor)|William Bradford]] established the [[Aptucxet Trading Post]] in 1627 at the portage between the rivers. Trade prospered with the American Indians of [[Narragansett Bay]] and the Dutch of [[New Netherland]], and this was a major factor enabling the Pilgrims to pay off their indebtedness.<ref>{{cite news |last = Reid |first = William J. |title = The Military Value of the Cape Cod Canal |work = United States Naval Institute Proceedings |date = August 1965 |page = 83 }}</ref> In 1697, the [[General Court of Massachusetts]] considered the first formal proposal to build the canal but took no action. In 1717, a canal was created in [[Orleans, Massachusetts]] called [[Jeremiah's Gutter]] which spanned a narrower portion of the Cape some distance to the east, but it only remained active until the late 1800s. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by [[George Washington]]), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fruition.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} |
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Construction of a canal was first considered by [[Myles Standish]] of the [[Plymouth Colony]] in 1623, and the [[Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony)|Pilgrims]] scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet{{efn|Manomet River later became known as Monument River.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.capecodmuseumtrail.com/a-history-of-the-cape-cod-canal/ |title = A history of the Cape Cod Canal |first = Glenn |last = Ritt |website = capecodmuseumtrail.com |date = January 18, 2016 |accessdate = May 16, 2023 }}</ref>}} and Scusset rivers for potential routes. [[William Bradford (Plymouth governor)|William Bradford]] established the [[Aptucxet Trading Post]] in 1627 at the portage between the rivers. Trade prospered with the Indians of [[Narragansett Bay]] and the Dutch of [[New Netherland]], and this was a major factor enabling the Pilgrims to pay off their debt.<ref>{{cite news |last = Reid |first = William J. |title = The Military Value of the Cape Cod Canal |work = United States Naval Institute Proceedings |date = August 1965 |page = 83 }}</ref> |
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In 1697, the [[General Court of Massachusetts]] considered the first formal proposal to build the canal but took no action.<ref name="conway">{{cite book |last1 = Conway |first1 = J. North |title = The Cape Cod Canal: Breaking Through the Bared and Bended Arm |date = 2008 |publisher = Arcadia Publishing Incorporated |isbn = 9781625843821 |page = 16 }}</ref> In 1717, a canal was created in [[Orleans, Massachusetts]] called [[Jeremiah's Gutter]] which spanned a narrower portion of the Cape some distance to the east, but it remained active only until the late 1800s. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (commissioned by [[George Washington]]),<ref>{{harvp|Conway|2008|p=18}}.</ref> 1791,<ref>{{harvp|Conway|2008|p=20}}.</ref> 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fruition.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} |
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The first attempts at actually building a canal did not take place until the late 19th century; earlier planners either ran out of money or were overwhelmed by the project's size. The engineers finally decided which route to take through the hillsides by connecting and widening the Manomet and Scusset Rivers. The first actual excavation began in 1880, when the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company hired 400 immigrant Italian laborers to begin digging with shovels and wheelbarrows. The effort ran out of money almost immediately, and the laborers were unpaid and forced to beg for food in [[Sandwich, Massachusetts|Sandwich]]. In 1883, the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company reorganized. Under engineer Frederick Lockwood, the company used a bucket dredge to clear nearly a mile of channel through the Sandwich marshes, before shutting down in 1891. <ref>{{cite book |last=Timothy |first=Orwig |date=2013 |title=Cape Cod Canal |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781467120364}}</ref>{{rp|20-22}} |
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The first attempts at actually building a canal did not take place until the late 19th century; earlier planners either ran out of money or were overwhelmed by the project's size. The engineers finally decided which route to take through the hillsides by connecting and widening the Manomet and Scusset rivers. The first excavation began in 1880, when the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company hired 400 immigrant Italian laborers to begin digging with shovels and wheelbarrows. The effort ran out of money almost immediately, and the laborers were unpaid and forced to beg for food in [[Sandwich, Massachusetts|Sandwich]]. In 1883, the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company reorganized under engineer Frederick Lockwood. The company used a bucket dredge to clear nearly a mile of channel through the Sandwich marshes before shutting down in 1891.<ref>{{cite book |last = Timothy |first = Orwig |date = 2013 |title = Cape Cod Canal |publisher = Arcadia Publishing |isbn = 9781467120364 |pages = 20–22 }}</ref> |
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===Private construction=== |
===Private construction=== |
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[[File:Postcard view of breaking the dam of the Cape Cod Canal, July 1914.jpg|thumb| |
[[File:Postcard view of breaking the dam of the Cape Cod Canal, July 1914.jpg|thumb|left|A postcard view of the July 4, 1914, breaking of the dam that separated the two rivers]] |
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On June 22, 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of [[August Belmont Jr.]]'s Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company using designs by engineer [[William Barclay Parsons]]. The canal engineers encountered many problems, such as huge boulders underwater (much of Cape Cod is a [[moraine]]—see [[Cape_Cod#Geology]]). Divers were hired to blow them up, but the effort slowed dredging. Another problem was cold winter storms which forced the engineers to stop dredging altogether and wait for spring.<ref name="canal-home">{{cite web |author = New England District |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/ccchome.htm |title = Cape Cod Canal |publisher = US Army Corps of Engineers |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20031205005523/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/ccchome.htm |archive-date = December 5, 2003 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Nevertheless, the canal opened on a limited basis on July 29, 1914,<ref>{{cite web |url = https://archive.org/stream/independen79v80newy#page/n92/mode/1up |title = The Independent |publisher = Archive.org |access-date = February 24, 2016 }}</ref> and it was completed in 1916. The privately owned toll canal had a maximum width of {{convert|100.|ft|m}} and a maximum depth of {{convert|25|ft|m}}, and it took a somewhat difficult route from Phinney Harbor at the head of Buzzards Bay.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/resources/mepmap.htm |title = Massachusetts Estuaries Project – Map & List of Targeted Estuaries |publisher = Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection |access-date = August 10, 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120609202133/http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/resources/mepmap.htm |archive-date = June 9, 2012 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Several accidents occurred due to the narrow channel and navigation difficulty, and these limited traffic and tarnished the canal's reputation. Toll revenues failed to meet investors' expectations as a result, despite shortening the trade route from New York City to Boston by {{convert|62|mi}}.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = The Opening of the Cape Cod Canal |work = Bulletin of the American Geographical Society |volume = 46 |issue = 11 |year = 1914 |pages = 832–834 |jstor = 200951 |doi = 10.2307/200951 }}</ref> |
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On June 22, 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of [[August Belmont Jr.]]'s Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, using designs by engineer [[William Barclay Parsons]]. The canal engineers encountered many problems, such as huge boulders underwater. Divers were hired to blow them up, but the effort slowed dredging. Another problem was cold winter storms which forced the engineers to stop dredging altogether and wait for spring.<ref name="canal-home">{{cite web |author = New England District |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/ccchome.htm |title = Cape Cod Canal |publisher = US Army Corps of Engineers |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20031205005523/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/ccchome.htm |archive-date = December 5, 2003 }}</ref> Nevertheless, the canal opened on a limited basis on July 29, 1914,<ref>{{cite magazine |date = July 20, 1914 |url = https://archive.org/stream/independen79v80newy#page/n92/mode/1up |magazine = The Independent |title = The Story of the Week: Opening the Cape Cod Canal |volume = 79 |issue = 3423 |page = 88 |access-date = February 24, 2016 |via = Archive.org }}</ref> and it was completed in 1916. The privately owned toll canal had a maximum width of {{convert|100|ft|m}} and a maximum depth of {{convert|25|ft|m}}, and it took a somewhat difficult route from Phinney Harbor at the head of Buzzards Bay.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/resources/mepmap.htm |title = Massachusetts Estuaries Project – Map & List of Targeted Estuaries |publisher = Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection |access-date = August 10, 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120609202133/http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/resources/mepmap.htm |archive-date = June 9, 2012 }}</ref> Several accidents occurred due to the narrow channel and navigation difficulty, and these limited traffic and tarnished the canal's reputation. Toll revenues failed to meet investors' expectations as a result, despite shortening the trade route from New York City to Boston by {{convert|62|mi}}.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = The Opening of the Cape Cod Canal |magazine = Bulletin of the American Geographical Society |volume = 46 |issue = 11 |year = 1914 |pages = 832–834 |jstor = 200951 |doi = 10.2307/200951 }}</ref> |
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===Public takeover and expansion=== |
===Public takeover and expansion=== |
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[[File:CapeCodCanalEastEndAerial.jpg|thumb|Aerial photo of the Cape Cod Canal looking west with [[Scusset Beach State Reservation]] at right]] |
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The German U-boat {{SMU|U-156||2}} surfaced {{convert|3|mi|km|0|spell=in}} off [[Orleans, Massachusetts]] on July 21, 1918 and [[U-boat Attack on Orleans, Massachusetts|shelled]] the [[tugboat]] ''Perth Amboy'' and her string of four barges. The Director General of the [[United States Railroad Administration]] took over jurisdiction and operation of the canal four days later under a presidential proclamation. The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] re-dredged the channel to {{convert|25|ft|m}} deep while it remained under government control until 1920. In 1928, the government purchased the canal for $11.4 million as a free public waterway, and $21 million was spent between 1935 and 1940 increasing the canal's width to {{convert|480|ft|m}} and its depth to {{convert|32|ft|m}}.<ref>{{harvp|Reid|1965 |pp= 85–86}}.</ref> As a result, it became the widest sea-level canal of its time.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/Navigation/navigation.htm |access-date = May 23, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090618002030/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/Navigation/navigation.htm |archive-date = June 18, 2009 |title = Cape Cod Canal at Army Corps of Engineers website }}</ref> The southern entrance to the canal was rebuilt for direct access from Buzzards Bay rather than through Phinney Harbor. Before construction began, the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] built a huge scale model of the canal (9 feet to a mile, roughly {{frac|1|587}} actual size) to study the hydraulic effects of tidal currents on the enlarged and rerouted canal.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lNsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA567 |title = Model of Cape Cod Canal Helps Study of Channel |work = [[Popular Mechanics]] |date = April 1936 |page = 567 |via = [[Google Books]] }}</ref> |
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On July 25, 1918, the Director General of the [[United States Railroad Administration]] took over jurisdiction and operation of the canal under a presidential proclamation. Four days earlier, the German U-boat {{SMU|U-156||2}} surfaced {{convert|3|mi|km|0|spell=in}} off [[Orleans, Massachusetts]] on July 21, 1918, and [[U-boat Attack on Orleans, Massachusetts|shelled]] the tugboat ''Perth Amboy'' and her string of four barges. The canal remained under government control until 1920, during which the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] re-dredged the channel to {{convert|25|ft|m}} deep. |
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In 1928, the government purchased the canal for $11.4 million as a free public waterway, and $21 million was spent between 1935 and 1940 increasing the canal's width to {{convert|480|ft|m}} and its depth to {{convert|32|ft|m}}.<ref>{{harvp|Reid|1965 |pp= 85–86}}.</ref> As a result, it became the widest sea-level canal of its time.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/Navigation/navigation.htm |access-date = May 23, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090618002030/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/Navigation/navigation.htm |archive-date = June 18, 2009 |title = Cape Cod Canal at Army Corps of Engineers website }}</ref> The southern entrance to the canal was rebuilt for direct access from Buzzards Bay rather than through Phinney Harbor. Before construction began, the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] built a huge scale model of the canal (9 feet to a mile, roughly {{frac|1|587}} actual size) to study the hydraulic effects of tidal currents on the enlarged and rerouted canal.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lNsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA567 |title = Model of Cape Cod Canal Helps Study of Channel |magazine = [[Popular Mechanics]] |date = April 1936 |page = 567 |via = [[Google Books]] }}</ref> |
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===World War II=== |
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During [[World War II]], shipping again used the canal to avoid U-boats patrolling offshore. It was protected by coastal artillery batteries at the [[Sagamore Hill Military Reservation]] at the northern entrance and the [[Butler Point Military Reservation]] at the southern entrance. The artillery was never fired in defense of the canal.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/masouth.html#boston |title = Sagamore Hill Military Reservation |work = American Forts Network }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/masouth.html#newbedford |title = Butler Point Military Reservation |work = American Forts Network }}</ref> |
During [[World War II]], shipping again used the canal to avoid U-boats patrolling offshore. It was protected by coastal artillery batteries at the [[Sagamore Hill Military Reservation]] at the northern entrance and the [[Butler Point Military Reservation]] at the southern entrance. The artillery was never fired in defense of the canal.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/masouth.html#boston |title = Sagamore Hill Military Reservation |work = American Forts Network }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.northamericanforts.com/East/masouth.html#newbedford |title = Butler Point Military Reservation |work = American Forts Network }}</ref> |
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The Mystic Steamship Company's collier SS ''[[USS Stephen R. Jones (ID-4526)|Stephen R. Jones]]'' was grounded and sank in the canal on June 28, 1942. Shipping was routed around Cape Cod, and |
The [[Mystic Steamship Company]]'s collier SS ''[[USS Stephen R. Jones (ID-4526)|Stephen R. Jones]]'' was grounded and sank in the canal on June 28, 1942. Shipping was routed around Cape Cod, and the [[Liberty ship]] SS ''[[SS Alexander Macomb|Alexander Macomb]]'' was torpedoed by the German submarine [[German submarine U-215|''U-215'']] on July 3 with the loss of ten lives. The canal reopened on July 31 after the wrecked ''Stephen R. Jones'' was removed with the help of 17 tons of dynamite.<ref>{{harvp|Reid|1965|pp=89–90}}.</ref> |
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==Recreational uses== |
==Recreational uses== |
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The canal is used extensively by recreational and commercial vessels. Service roads on both sides of the canal provide access for fishing and are heavily used by in-line skaters, bicyclists, and walkers. Several parking areas are maintained at access points. Bourne Scenic Park is leased by the Corps of Engineers to the Town of Bourne Recreation Authority for use as a tent and RV campground adjacent to the Canal.<ref name=Corps>{{cite web |author = New England District |title = Recreation Along the Cape Cod Canal |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/recreation/recreation.htm |publisher = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |access-date = October 31, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091128204130/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/recreation/recreation.htm |archive-date = November 28, 2009 |
The canal is used extensively by recreational and commercial vessels. Service roads on both sides of the canal provide access for fishing and are heavily used by in-line skaters, bicyclists, and walkers. Several parking areas are maintained at access points. Bourne Scenic Park is leased by the Corps of Engineers to the Town of Bourne Recreation Authority for use as a tent and RV campground adjacent to the Canal.<ref name=Corps>{{cite web |author = New England District |title = Recreation Along the Cape Cod Canal |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/recreation/recreation.htm |publisher = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |access-date = October 31, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091128204130/http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/ccc/recreation/recreation.htm |archive-date = November 28, 2009 }}</ref> |
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The Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center which introduces visitors to the history, features, and operation of the canal. Features include a retired {{convert|41|ft|m|adj=on}} US Army Corps of Engineers patrol boat, a 46-seat theater showing continuous DVD presentations on canal history, canal flora and fauna, real time radar and camera images of the waterway, and a variety of interactive exhibits. Corps Park Rangers staff the center and provide free public programs on a variety of subjects. The Visitor Center is open seasonally from May to October, and admission is free. It is located on Moffitt Drive in Sandwich near the canal's east end. A second seasonally staffed center is at the Herring Run along Scenic Highway.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Cape-Cod-Canal/ |title=Cape Cod Canal (Buzzards Bay and Sandwich, Mass.), New England District |publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |language=en-US |access-date= |
The Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center which introduces visitors to the history, features, and operation of the canal. Features include a retired {{convert|41|ft|m|adj=on}} US Army Corps of Engineers patrol boat, a 46-seat theater showing continuous DVD presentations on canal history, canal flora and fauna, real time radar and camera images of the waterway, and a variety of interactive exhibits. Corps Park Rangers staff the center and provide free public programs on a variety of subjects. The Visitor Center is open seasonally from May to October, and admission is free. It is located on Moffitt Drive in Sandwich near the canal's east end. A second seasonally staffed center is at the Herring Run along Scenic Highway.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Cape-Cod-Canal/ |title = Cape Cod Canal (Buzzards Bay and Sandwich, Mass.), New England District |publisher = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |language = en-US |access-date = July 27, 2018 }}</ref> |
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[[Scusset Beach State Reservation]] lies just north of the east end of the canal and offers beach facilities as well as tent and RV camping. A {{convert|0.7|mi|km|adj=on}} trail there leads to Sagamore Hill, once an Indian meeting ground and the site of a World War II coastal fortification.<ref name=Corps /> Bournedale Hills Trail extends {{convert|1.4|mi|km}} along the north side of the Canal from Bourne Scenic Park campground to the Herring Run. The trail includes a {{convert|0.8|mi|km|adj=on}} self-guided loop which interprets the Canal's historic and natural features.<ref name=Corps /> |
[[Scusset Beach State Reservation]] lies just north of the east end of the canal and offers beach facilities as well as tent and RV camping. A {{convert|0.7|mi|km|adj=on}} trail there leads to Sagamore Hill, once an Indian meeting ground and the site of a World War II coastal fortification.<ref name=Corps /> Bournedale Hills Trail extends {{convert|1.4|mi|km}} along the north side of the Canal from Bourne Scenic Park campground to the Herring Run. The trail includes a {{convert|0.8|mi|km|adj=on}} self-guided loop which interprets the Canal's historic and natural features.<ref name=Corps /> |
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=== <span class="anchor" id="Tunnel"></span> Tunnel folklore and proposal === |
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A spoof became popular during the late 20th century concerning a fictitious road tunnel, allegedly built in the 1960s under the Cape Cod Canal.<ref name="netp canal">{{Cite web|url=https://newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/capecod/cape_cod_canal.html|title=Cape Cod Canal|website= |
A spoof became popular during the late 20th century concerning a fictitious road tunnel, allegedly built in the 1960s, under the Cape Cod Canal.<ref name="netp canal">{{Cite web |url = https://newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/capecod/cape_cod_canal.html |title = Cape Cod Canal |website = New England Travel Planner }}</ref> It came into popular usage in Massachusetts as a commentary on the severe traffic entering and exiting Cape Cod during the summer months. Since 1994, decals have been sold in shops around the Cape as popular souvenirs purporting to be "permits" allowing the bearer to use the tunnel; the popularity of these "permits" briefly led to a lawsuit among several different sellers.<ref>{{cite news |first = Felix |last = Carroll |url = https://www.capecodtimes.com/article/19991002/NEWS01/310029976?start=2 |title = A case of tunnel vision |newspaper = [[Cape Cod Times]] |date = October 2, 1999 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first = James |last = Carlson |url = https://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20040903/NEWS01/309039941 |title = Sticking around |newspaper = Cape Cod Times |date = September 3, 2004 }}</ref> In 2019, the [[Massachusetts Department of Transportation]] (MassDOT) said that it had studied the idea of adding a tunnel, but had no plans to do so.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.boston.com/cars/local-news/2019/05/24/cape-cod-tunnel/ |url-access = |title = Why MassDOT dismissed the idea of a Cape Cod tunnel |last = DeCosta-Klipa |first = Nik |date = May 24, 2019 |department = Local news |website = [[The Boston Globe]] |access-date = January 12, 2023 |via = Boston.com |url-status = |archive-url = |archive-date = |quote = Officials say tunnels pose a lot more challenges compared to bridges, even if people keeping asking. }}</ref> |
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* {{Cite report |author=Massachusetts General Court Joint Committee on Ship Canal to Connect Barnstable Bay and Buzzard's Bay |date=1864 |title=Report of the Joint Committee of 1860 upon the Proposed Canal to Unite Barnstable and Buzzard's Bays |url=https://archive.org/details/reportjointcomm01baygoog |location=Boston |publisher=Wright & Potter, State Printers |pages=10–22 |access-date=July 24, 2014}} |
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* {{Cite book |last=Reid |first=William James |date=1961 |title=The Building of the Cape Cod Canal, 1627–1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/buildingofcapeco0000will |location=New York |publisher=Privately printed |lccn=61-15903|oclc=987742}} |
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| Location | Barnstable County, Massachusetts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°45′51″N 70°34′6″W / 41.76417°N 70.56833°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Specifications | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 7.4 miles (11.9 km) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum boat length | 825 feet (251 m)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum boat draft | 32 feet (9.8 m)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum boat air draft | 135 feet (41 m)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locks | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Open | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navigation authority | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Original owner | Cape Cod & New York Canal Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Principal engineer | William Barclay Parsons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction began | June 22, 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first use | July 29, 1914 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geography | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start point | Cape Cod Bay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End point | Buzzards Bay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 feet (150 m) and deepened to 32 feet (9.8 m) at mean low water, shaving up to 135 miles (217 km) off the journey around the cape for its approximately 14,000 annual users.[2]
Most of the canal is located in the town of Bourne, but its northeastern terminus is in Sandwich. Scusset Beach State Reservation lies near the canal's north entrance, and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy is near its south. A swift-running current changes direction every six hours and can reach 5.2 miles per hour (8.4 km/h) during the receding ebb tide.
The waterway is maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and has no toll fees.[3] It is spanned by the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, the Bourne Bridge, and the Sagamore Bridge. Traffic lights at either end govern the approach of vessels over 65 feet (20 m).
The canal is occasionally used by whales and dolphins,[4] including endangered North Atlantic right whales, which can cause closure of the canal.[5][6]
History
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Construction of a canal was first considered by Myles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and the Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet[a] and Scusset rivers for potential routes. William Bradford established the Aptucxet Trading Post in 1627 at the portage between the rivers. Trade prospered with the Indians of Narragansett Bay and the Dutch of New Netherland, and this was a major factor enabling the Pilgrims to pay off their debt.[8]
In 1697, the General Court of Massachusetts considered the first formal proposal to build the canal but took no action.[9] In 1717, a canal was created in Orleans, Massachusetts called Jeremiah's Gutter which spanned a narrower portion of the Cape some distance to the east, but it remained active only until the late 1800s. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (commissioned by George Washington),[10] 1791,[11] 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fruition.[citation needed]
The first attempts at actually building a canal did not take place until the late 19th century; earlier planners either ran out of money or were overwhelmed by the project's size. The engineers finally decided which route to take through the hillsides by connecting and widening the Manomet and Scusset rivers. The first excavation began in 1880, when the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company hired 400 immigrant Italian laborers to begin digging with shovels and wheelbarrows. The effort ran out of money almost immediately, and the laborers were unpaid and forced to beg for food in Sandwich. In 1883, the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company reorganized under engineer Frederick Lockwood. The company used a bucket dredge to clear nearly a mile of channel through the Sandwich marshes before shutting down in 1891.[12]
Private construction
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On June 22, 1909, construction finally began for a working canal under the direction of August Belmont Jr.'s Boston, Cape Cod & New York Canal Company, using designs by engineer William Barclay Parsons. The canal engineers encountered many problems, such as huge boulders underwater. Divers were hired to blow them up, but the effort slowed dredging. Another problem was cold winter storms which forced the engineers to stop dredging altogether and wait for spring.[13] Nevertheless, the canal opened on a limited basis on July 29, 1914,[14] and it was completed in 1916. The privately owned toll canal had a maximum width of 100 feet (30 m) and a maximum depth of 25 feet (7.6 m), and it took a somewhat difficult route from Phinney Harbor at the head of Buzzards Bay.[15] Several accidents occurred due to the narrow channel and navigation difficulty, and these limited traffic and tarnished the canal's reputation. Toll revenues failed to meet investors' expectations as a result, despite shortening the trade route from New York City to Boston by 62 miles (100 km).[16]
Public takeover and expansion
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On July 25, 1918, the Director General of the United States Railroad Administration took over jurisdiction and operation of the canal under a presidential proclamation. Four days earlier, the German U-boat U-156 surfaced three miles (5 km) off Orleans, Massachusetts on July 21, 1918, and shelled the tugboat Perth Amboy and her string of four barges. The canal remained under government control until 1920, during which the United States Army Corps of Engineers re-dredged the channel to 25 feet (7.6 m) deep.
In 1928, the government purchased the canal for $11.4 million as a free public waterway, and $21 million was spent between 1935 and 1940 increasing the canal's width to 480 feet (150 m) and its depth to 32 feet (9.8 m).[17] As a result, it became the widest sea-level canal of its time.[18] The southern entrance to the canal was rebuilt for direct access from Buzzards Bay rather than through Phinney Harbor. Before construction began, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a huge scale model of the canal (9 feet to a mile, roughly 1⁄587 actual size) to study the hydraulic effects of tidal currents on the enlarged and rerouted canal.[19]
World War II
[edit]During World War II, shipping again used the canal to avoid U-boats patrolling offshore. It was protected by coastal artillery batteries at the Sagamore Hill Military Reservation at the northern entrance and the Butler Point Military Reservation at the southern entrance. The artillery was never fired in defense of the canal.[20][21]
The Mystic Steamship Company's collier SS Stephen R. Jones was grounded and sank in the canal on June 28, 1942. Shipping was routed around Cape Cod, and the Liberty ship SS Alexander Macomb was torpedoed by the German submarine U-215 on July 3 with the loss of ten lives. The canal reopened on July 31 after the wrecked Stephen R. Jones was removed with the help of 17 tons of dynamite.[22]
Recreational uses
[edit]The canal is used extensively by recreational and commercial vessels. Service roads on both sides of the canal provide access for fishing and are heavily used by in-line skaters, bicyclists, and walkers. Several parking areas are maintained at access points. Bourne Scenic Park is leased by the Corps of Engineers to the Town of Bourne Recreation Authority for use as a tent and RV campground adjacent to the Canal.[23]
The Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center which introduces visitors to the history, features, and operation of the canal. Features include a retired 41-foot (12 m) US Army Corps of Engineers patrol boat, a 46-seat theater showing continuous DVD presentations on canal history, canal flora and fauna, real time radar and camera images of the waterway, and a variety of interactive exhibits. Corps Park Rangers staff the center and provide free public programs on a variety of subjects. The Visitor Center is open seasonally from May to October, and admission is free. It is located on Moffitt Drive in Sandwich near the canal's east end. A second seasonally staffed center is at the Herring Run along Scenic Highway.[24]
Scusset Beach State Reservation lies just north of the east end of the canal and offers beach facilities as well as tent and RV camping. A 0.7-mile (1.1 km) trail there leads to Sagamore Hill, once an Indian meeting ground and the site of a World War II coastal fortification.[23] Bournedale Hills Trail extends 1.4 miles (2.3 km) along the north side of the Canal from Bourne Scenic Park campground to the Herring Run. The trail includes a 0.8-mile (1.3 km) self-guided loop which interprets the Canal's historic and natural features.[23]
Tunnel folklore and proposal
[edit]A spoof became popular during the late 20th century concerning a fictitious road tunnel, allegedly built in the 1960s, under the Cape Cod Canal.[25] It came into popular usage in Massachusetts as a commentary on the severe traffic entering and exiting Cape Cod during the summer months. Since 1994, decals have been sold in shops around the Cape as popular souvenirs purporting to be "permits" allowing the bearer to use the tunnel; the popularity of these "permits" briefly led to a lawsuit among several different sellers.[26][27] In 2019, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) said that it had studied the idea of adding a tunnel, but had no plans to do so.[28]
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See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ New England District (November 12, 2015). "Cape Cod Canal (Buzzards Bay and Sandwich, Mass.)". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ^ Pearson, Samantha. "Dolphins in Cape Cod Canal Saturday" (Video). Boston: WBZ-TV.
- ^ Bragg, Mary Ann (May 9, 2015). "Cape Cod Canal closed after right whale sighting". Cape Cod Times.
- ^ "Favorite Places". Archived from the original on September 8, 2008.
- ^ Ritt, Glenn (January 18, 2016). "A history of the Cape Cod Canal". capecodmuseumtrail.com. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
- ^ Reid, William J. (August 1965). "The Military Value of the Cape Cod Canal". United States Naval Institute Proceedings. p. 83.
- ^ Conway, J. North (2008). The Cape Cod Canal: Breaking Through the Bared and Bended Arm. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. p. 16. ISBN 9781625843821.
- ^ Conway (2008), p. 18.
- ^ Conway (2008), p. 20.
- ^ Timothy, Orwig (2013). Cape Cod Canal. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 20–22. ISBN 9781467120364.
- ^ New England District. "Cape Cod Canal". US Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original on December 5, 2003.
- ^ "The Story of the Week: Opening the Cape Cod Canal". The Independent. Vol. 79, no. 3423. July 20, 1914. p. 88. Retrieved February 24, 2016 – via Archive.org.
- ^ "Massachusetts Estuaries Project – Map & List of Targeted Estuaries". Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
- ^ "The Opening of the Cape Cod Canal". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. Vol. 46, no. 11. 1914. pp. 832–834. doi:10.2307/200951. JSTOR 200951.
- ^ Reid (1965), pp. 85–86.
- ^ "Cape Cod Canal at Army Corps of Engineers website". Archived from the original on June 18, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
- ^ "Model of Cape Cod Canal Helps Study of Channel". Popular Mechanics. April 1936. p. 567 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Sagamore Hill Military Reservation". American Forts Network.
- ^ "Butler Point Military Reservation". American Forts Network.
- ^ Reid (1965), pp. 89–90.
- ^ a b c New England District. "Recreation Along the Cape Cod Canal". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original on November 28, 2009. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
- ^ "Cape Cod Canal (Buzzards Bay and Sandwich, Mass.), New England District". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
- ^ "Cape Cod Canal". New England Travel Planner.
- ^ Carroll, Felix (October 2, 1999). "A case of tunnel vision". Cape Cod Times.
- ^ Carlson, James (September 3, 2004). "Sticking around". Cape Cod Times.
- ^ DeCosta-Klipa, Nik (May 24, 2019). "Why MassDOT dismissed the idea of a Cape Cod tunnel". Local news. The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 12, 2023 – via Boston.com.
Officials say tunnels pose a lot more challenges compared to bridges, even if people keeping asking.
Further reading
[edit]- Butler, Gerald (2002). The Military History of the Cape Cod Canal. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738510092. OCLC 0738510092.
- Massachusetts General Court Joint Committee on Ship Canal to Connect Barnstable Bay and Buzzard's Bay (1864). Report of the Joint Committee of 1860 upon the Proposed Canal to Unite Barnstable and Buzzard's Bays (Report). Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers. pp. 10–22. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
- Reid, William James (1961). The Building of the Cape Cod Canal, 1627–1914. New York: Privately printed. LCCN 61-15903. OCLC 987742.
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