By Barbara N Kalata

Illustrated with photographs, reproductions. Monumental history of New Jersey’s Morris Canal from the days of first vision by George MacCulloch of Morristown in the early 1820s, the issuance of the Morris Canal and Banking Company charter in 1824, its completion from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Newark in 1831, expansion east to the Hudson waterfront and the century of its operation into the 1920s.