E30 Macedon

Macedon measures the distance the canal has traveled in time as well as miles. Off Quaker Road sits Enlarged Erie Lock 60 — a stone lock opened in 1841 and later doubled, its limestone still grooved where towropes bit into the walls; it worked until 1914, when the modern Barge Canal Lock E30 replaced it. That new lock, which lifts boats 16.4 feet at mile 239, is the one traffic rides today, a dug land cut through Wayne County farmland. The old and the new sit close enough to visit in an afternoon: one a hand-cut relic saved by a quarter-century of volunteer labor, the other a machine-age chamber still doing the daily work. Between E30 and the next lock the canal skips a number entirely — there is no E31 on the Erie.