In 1822, the Farmington Canal Company built an 84-mile-long waterway from New Haven, Connecticut, to Northampton, Massachusetts. By the mid-19th century, locomotives had replaced boats as the most common mode of transport, transforming the channel into a railroad.
Today, the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail exemplifies the power of preservation since being converted to a pathway over the last 50 years. And it all began in what would later become Quinnipiac University’s backyard.
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