Mule Barn

Mule Barn

Photo by MJ Clingan

At mile marker 109, two hundred feet upstream on the berm side, sits a mule barn used to house mules during the winter months when the canal was closed. The ‘engines’ of canal boats, mules usually worked in pairs of two. Learn more.

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Photo by MJ Clingan

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