Contributing Writer
WORCESTER – In the early 1800s, a group of businessmen from Massachusetts and Rhode Island had an idea of how to capitalize on the burgeoning success of the Industrial Revolution. They decided to pursue the building of a canal that would allow for a cheaper, faster way transport goods between the rapidly developing industrial center of Worcester and Providence, Rhode Island, using the Blackstone River as a base to construct the canal.
Required 48 canal locks…