E28B Newark

At Newark the canal keeps company with its own ghosts. Lock E28B lifts boats 12 feet at mile 226, and directly across North Clinton Street stand the remnants of Enlarged Erie Lock 59 — a double-chamber lock of the 1840s canal, “Upper Lockville,” stranded on dry land when the Barge Canal cut a new line nearby. The modern lock also keeps its 1916 powerhouse, one of the few on the system still holding its original equipment. Newark made its name in flowers, not stone: Jackson & Perkins, founded here in 1872, bred the world-famous “Dorothy Perkins” climbing rose and styled the village the “Rose Capital of America.” Two locks, two centuries, one street corner — the clearest place on this reach to watch the canal rebuild itself in place.