Some early canals in the United States included:
- Cut River, 1636, connecting Plymouth Harbor with Marshfield on Green Harbor;
- South Hadley Canal, opened in 1795, bypassing Great Falls at South Hadley, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River;
- Santee Canal, opened in 1800, 22 miles between Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina;
- Dismal Swamp Canal, opened in 1805, 22 miles between Virginia and North Carolina;
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