Clinton’s Ditch

The Buried Canals of Cohoes, NY

Season two of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast coming soon.

Beneath the streets of Cohoes, New York, the past is still there, locked in stone chambers, buried corridors, and waterworn masonry that once carried boats westward through a defiant cut in the earth. What began as an audacious effort to bypass the roaring Cohoes Falls became one of t…