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Delaware & Raritan Canal, Ten Mile Run Culvert, 1.5 miles South of Blackwells Road, East Millstone, Somerset County, NJ
Location1.5 miles South of Blackwells Road,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
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 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
Civil EngineeringRecreationWater Supply
Related Names
White, Canvass
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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.
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