Canals, Rivers & Waterways » Libraries, Archives & Museums

Click on the broken link graphic and fill in the form

• A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives

  The NYS Archives maintains this site which describes 360 series of records documenting New York's canals from the earliest Erie Canal surveys to the completion and operation of the Barge Canal.

• Center for Columbia River History

  For the study of the history of the Columbia River basin.

• Columbia River Maritime Museum

  Located in Asotoria, Oregon. The museum collects and preserves historical and cultural maritime material relevant to the Columbia River.

• Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States

  • Records of the National Park Service [NPS]

    • Records of The Potomac Company and The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company 1785-1938

      • Records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

      • Records of the Potomac Company

• Guildhall Library Manuscripts Collection

  London, England.

  • Leaflet Guides to Records

    • Records of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen

  • search@guildhall

    Experienced researchers will undertake fee-for-service research in Guildhall Library's collections.

• London Canal Museum

  England.

  • The Museum's Collection

    • Family History Checklist

      Provides step-by-step research instructions for investigating canal boat ancestors.

• National Canal Museum

  Easton, Pennsylvania.

• National Waterways Museum Gloucester,

  England.

• New Jersey Division of Archives & Records Management

  • Morris Canal & Banking Company: Microfilm Collection

• Pennsylvania State Archives

  • Manuscript Groups

    • Records Of The Union Canal Company Of Pennsylvania

    • Susquehanna Canal Company Records 1835-1897

• St. Louis Mercantile Library

  At the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Established in 1846 by civic leaders and philanthropists, the Mercantile exists today as a vibrant community, cultural asset. It is the oldest library west of the Mississippi and the grandparent of all cultural institutions in St. Louis. The task of the Mercantile Library as a research library is to make its collections, which have come to concentrate on Western Expansion and the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region and of the American rail and river transportation experiences, available to the widest number of local and national users.

  • Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library

    Collection includes more than 15,000 volumes covering all aspects of the history of America's inland rivers and waterways, and dating from the beginnings of inland river navigation and its development in the 1820s to the present day. Holdings also include coverage of foreign waterways and ocean navigation.

• Steamboat Photographs - Murphy Library - University of Wisconsin La Crosse

  Large collection of photographs of inland steamboats.

• The Greater Manchester County Record Office

  England.

  • The Shareholders' Records Of The Manchester Ship Canal Company

    From the Greater Manchester County Record Office.

• UK Parliament - Parliamentary Archives

  The archive service for both Houses of Parliament and facilitates public access to several million records which are preserved in the Victoria Tower repository. The records include plans of canals, roads, railways and other public works deposited in connection with private bills from 1794.

• Water Folk Canal Centre

  Wales.