Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
A selected, source-based research collection for New Haven and Fairfield counties. Includes credited photographs where reusable images were located, historical interpretation and links to supporting records. It is a growing inventory, not an exhaustive survey. Photographs retain their individual dates and reuse terms; images do not establish present access conditions.

id: CT059-S01
title: Connecticut State Parks: Farmington Canal Greenway
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Locks, walls and a later rail route reveal successive solutions to moving people and goods.
url: https://ctparks.com/parks/farmington-canal-greenway-state-park
credit: Connecticut State Parks
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT059-S02
title: Southern canal trail and Lock 12: bibliography
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Locks, walls and a later rail route reveal successive solutions to moving people and goods.
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_Canal_State_Park_Trail
credit: Southern canal trail and Lock 12
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT059-P01
title: Farmington canal lock 12
kind: Photographs
date: Taken on 30 September 2007
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: Lock number 12 on the Farmington Canal in Cheshire, CT (US). Photo taken by en:User:Staib on 30 September 2007.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington_canal_lock_12.jpg
credit: Staib (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0
notes: Reuse permitted under CC BY-SA 3.0; credit the creator, link the license, and identify changes. Adapted images must be shared under the same license. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/farmington_canal-22646095.jpg
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license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Farmington_canal_lock_12.jpg
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id: CT059-P02
title: Farmington Canal near Mount Carmel, Hamden
kind: Photographs
date: 1890-1909
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: A girl and three boys stand on a dirt path between a canal and a dirt road.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington_Canal_near_Mount_Carmel,_Hamden.jpg
credit: Unknown photographer / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/farmington_canal-162714513.jpg
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Farmington_Canal_near_Mount_Carmel%2C_Hamden.jpg
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id: CT059-P03
title: Cut through the Steps, Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, Mount Carmel, October 2023
kind: Photographs
date: 2023-10-14 11:51
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: The Farmington Canal Heritage Trail following the former Canal Line railroad cut through "the Steps" - a lower ridge of the "Sleeping Giant" mountain - in the Mount Carmel section of Hamden, Connecticut
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cut_through_the_Steps,_Farmington_Canal_Heritage_Trail,_Mount_Carmel,_October_2023.jpg
credit: Ethan Long / CC BY-SA 2.0
notes: Reuse permitted under CC BY-SA 2.0; credit the creator, link the license, and identify changes. Adapted images must be shared under the same license. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/farmington_canal-149810298.jpg
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cut_through_the_Steps%2C_Farmington_Canal_Heritage_Trail%2C_Mount_Carmel%2C_October_2023.jpg
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id: CT059-P04
title: Farmington Canal Trail in Cheshire, December 2017
kind: Photographs
date: Taken on 29 December 2017
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: Farmington Canal Trail in Cheshire in December 2017
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmington_Canal_Trail_in_Cheshire,_December_2017.JPG
credit: Pi.1415926535 / CC BY-SA 3.0
notes: Reuse permitted under CC BY-SA 3.0; credit the creator, link the license, and identify changes. Adapted images must be shared under the same license. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/farmington_canal-65562551.jpg
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license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Farmington_Canal_Trail_in_Cheshire%2C_December_2017.JPG
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id: ED-H2-HT-SP-018
title: Connecticut Company trolley bridge remains
kind: Photographs
date: 2017-12-29
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: Concrete trolley-bridge remains near the Farmington Canal trail. Bridge remains once carried the Connecticut Company's Cheshire–Waterbury trolley line above the Canal Line.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remains_of_Connecticut_Company_bridge_over_the_Canal_Line,_December_2017.JPG
credit: Pi.1415926535 / Wikimedia Commons (see source page for original provenance)
notes: Evidence of the later rail and trolley landscape, not a canal-era structure. Do not call these canal-era masonry or rail-line abutments; catalog says Connecticut Company trolley. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY-SA 3.0 (also GFDL; select CC).
file: images/ED-H2-HT-SP-018.webp
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id: ED-H2-HT-SP-019
title: Mount Carmel railroad station building
kind: Photographs
date: 2024-06-26
institution: Farmington Canal: New Haven, Hamden & Cheshire
summary: Mount Carmel railroad station building alongside the trail. The Mount Carmel station building records the railroad phase of the canal corridor in a June 2024 photograph.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Carmel_Railroad_Station_building,_2024_(53819883605).jpg
credit: Ethan Long / Wikimedia Commons (see source page for original provenance)
notes: Original Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/188360586@N03/53819883605 Modern adaptive-use setting, not an operating historic passenger scene. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY-SA 2.0; Flickr license verified on Commons 2024-07-14.
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