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New Haven and Northampton Canal Greenway
The New Haven and Northampton Canal Greenway is an 87-mile multiuse rails-to-trails linear park pathway following the historic Connecticut Farmington Canal and the Massachusetts Hampshire and Hampden Canal. Both canals were combined and became known as the New Haven and Northampton Canal in 1836. With the invention of the steam engine the canal was no longer profitable and the canal was abandoned in 1847. The canal right of way became a railroad known as the New Haven and Northampton Company and once called ‘The Canal Line’. Over time successive railroad owners abandoned the railway. Many advocacy groups worked to create this multiple bicycling and hiking trail along this rails-to-trails corridor linking sixteen communities along its route.

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