Flatboat used in South Hadley Canal.

• – Some flatboats were about 70 feet long and 12 feet wide, with a capacity of 30 tons, some with seven men, three working on each side and the captain steering.

• – Canal-boats -- History
• – Flatboats -- Massachusetts
• – South Hadley (Mass.)
• – Hampshire County (Mass.) -- History
• – Flatboats -- Connecticut River (Mass.)
• – Drawing

• – South Hadley Collection

• – 1795-1845

• – C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

• – From the collection of the South Hadley Historical Society, South Hadley, Mass. http://home.comcast.net/~robertjudge/index.html

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• – S. Hadley MA

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