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The Canal was partially drained for five months a year
because winter freezes made it unusable. Because it was so
shallow, the Canal could freeze very quickly, trapping boats in
ice. |
| But the frozen canal also created many opportunities for
recreation, such as ice skating at the widewaters or the
aqueduct. Hundreds of skaters would gather on the aqueduct, where
the stone walls protected them from cold winter winds. In 1899,
spirited horsemen who could no longer race up and down East
Avenue ran their horseraces in the frozen old canal bed. |
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