Founded in 1974 in Delphi, Indiana, Carroll County Wabash and Erie Canal, Inc. is dedicated to preserving the Delphi stretch of the Wabash and Erie Canal, about one mile long and the longest accessible and recreationally developed portion in Indiana. The restored canal bed has been returned to its original condition with a constant water supply, and trails border three miles of restored towpath as part of a wider trail system developed with Delphi Historic Trails that offers more than ten miles of hiking through Canal Park, the surrounding Wabash River and Deer Creek landscape, woods, fields, and the historic town of Delphi. The park includes canal-era features and structures such as the 1844 Reed Case house parlor with restored furniture and wall fixtures, a rare bowstring arch iron bridge built in 1874 near Camden and restored and moved to the park in 1999, the site of three lime kilns that began operating in 1857, a wooden bridge design that let canal boats and mule teams pass beneath without unhitching, and a stone arch bridge built in 1901 by John C. O'Connor. The Historic Canal Village is made up of canal-era buildings in typical Midwestern styles of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, built within a few miles of the park by local and itinerant craftsmen and later moved there. The area also offers year-round recreation, while the Wabash and Erie Canal Conference and Interpretive Center, designed from historic buildings and old photographs of an 1850s Delphi streetscape, contains exhibit space on canal artifacts, the construction of the full 468-mile canal from Toledo, Ohio, to Evansville, Indiana, and the canal's 30-year operation in the region.