AN ABANDONED SECTION OF THE ABERDEEN-SPRINGFIELD CANAL
Northwest of Springfield, a two-thirds mile stretch of abandoned canal displays the difficulty early canal builders faced.
2/8/20261 min read
Around 1904, the American Falls Canal and Power Company was working the area from Pingree to the Big Fill, north of Grandview, scraping their way through a very rocky terrain with horses, scrapers and shovels in order to open up sixty thousand acres of farmground. The left line shows a stretch of their efforts that was abandoned when fissures made it apparent that most of the water would flow underground rather than continuing on down the canal. Months of labor must have been lost.
