Delaware & Raritan Canal, Ten Mile Run Culvert, 1.5 miles South of Blackwells Road, East Millstone vicinity, Somerset County, NJ

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8 b&w photos
9 data pages
2 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Delaware & Raritan Canal, Ten Mile Run Culvert, 1.5 miles South of Blackwells Road, East Millstone vicinity, Somerset County, NJ

CALL NUMBER:
HAER NJ,18-MILE.V,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 8 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 8 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 2

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
White, Canvass

NOTE:
Survey number HAER NJ-68

Building/structure dates: 1834 initial construction

Building/structure dates: 1933

Building/structure dates: 1944 subsequent work

Building/structure dates: 1986 subsequent work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: NR

Significance: The Ten Mile Run Culvert is an integral part of the Delaware & Raritan Canal's (hereafter D&R Canal) early nineteenth-century engineering design. The culvert's original construction remains largely intact and consists of three 130-foot-long stone masonry barrels that carry Ten Mile Run beneath the canal prism. Built between 1830 and 1834, the D&R Canal is an excellent example of early nineteenth-century American canal technology. In 1973, the D&R Canal, including Ten Mile Run Culvert, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

SUBJECTS:
NEW JERSEY--Somerset County--East Millstone vicinity
civil engineering
recreation
water supply

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nj1092

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. View southeast at northwest facade of dewatered culvert outlet headwall, above which part of the canal bank has been removed. Buttresses and upper portion of headwall (above arches) are nineteenth-century additions to the lower, original headwall.
2. View east at northwest facade of dewatered culvert outlet headwall.
3. View southwest at dewatered culvert outlet headwall, with part of canal bank removed in back (left) of headwall.
4. View northwest at the southeast facade of the dewatered culvert inlet headwall. Part of canal bank has been removed above the headwall.
5. View northwest at the northeastmost arch of culvert inlet headwall, showing high inlet vault and interior drop arch.
6. View southwest, culvert inlet with canal bank completely removed. Left to right: back of headwall; tops of high inlet barrels; vertical transition wall between high inlet barrels and low, interior, inlet barrels; tops of low interior barrels; vertical heartening planks and low cutoff wall along former edge of canal bank; dewatered canal bed.
7. View north at back (canal side) of culvert inlet, with canal bank completely removed. Background to foreground: back of inlet headwall with tops of high inlet barrels exposed; vertical transition wall between high inlet barrels and low, interior, inlet barrels; tops of low interior barrels; vertical heartening planks and low cutoff wall at site of former canal edge of canal bank; dewatered canal bed and plank sheathing on top of culvert barrels beneath canal bed.
8. View southwest at the northeastern end of culvert inlet, with canal bank completely removed. Left to right: back of curved wingwall; tops of high inlet barrels; vertical transition wall between high inlet barrels and low interior barrels; tops of low, interior barrels; vertical heartening planks at former canal edge of canal bank.

CONTROL #:
NJ1092

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