The Cumberland-Oxford Canal

The Cumberland-Oxford Canal is a hand-dug waterway that provided a safe and fairly inexpensive method of transportation from the ocean to fifty miles inland. It had 27 locks and 1 aqueduct. It was about 20 miles long. About 150 heavily loaded barges were horse-drawn up and down the river on their way from the ocean to Harrison and back. These barges carried farm products, lumber, kegs of black powder from Gambo, sugar, rum, molasses from the West Indies, and manufactured clothing.