By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Living on a canal boat traveling down the Erie Canal, to the Hudson River, to Red Hook, Brooklyn's Erie Basin was a job and a way of life for some people, but for three women from Brooklyn, in the summer of 1891, it was a great restful vacation. The...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Near Christmas time, 1915, a female reporter and an illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, visited a few of the many canal boats and barges moored for the winter in Erie Basin “in search of a story about holiday preparations and winter life.”...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
In 1890, Mrs. A. M. Hamilton, a widow, was interviewed in Atlantic Basin, and celebrated by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as being equal to any man running a canal boat. Beginning in the mid-1820s, canal boats brought produce from the nation's...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photo taken July 26, 1939 from Columbia Street ("long dock"as old-timers call it) of a family posing aboard their home: the canal barge G.W LETHBRIDGE. The G.W. LETHBRIDGE. was a canal boat that transported grain down the Erie Canal to Red Hook's...