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Schuylkill River Trail along the towpath of the watered portion of the Oakes Reach. It was expected that the towpath restoration itself would commence around March 2009. Restoration of the canal towpath between
Longford Road and Mont Clare is now complete. However, this one-mile-long segment of Schuylkill River Trail is a narrow crushed-stone path, designed for pedestrians and slower bicycles. Cyclists who prefer higher speeds are encouraged to ride on parallel Walnut Street, rather than the Longford Road-to-Mont Clare section of tow-path.
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almost immediately, so the principals immediately dispatched the two projects workmen, both river navvy's and mine improvement teams had been told off and hired over the winter. Within a week, they'd teams of workers heading up the Lehigh to begin necessary works. Two months later, they'd legally formed the
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and other investors to fund the projects. The Lehigh and
Schuylkill canals had similar problems, both had to make navigable a series of rapids with rivers providing less water than was optimal—and ironically, by the 1820s, both eventually shipped coal from the opposite ends of the Little Schuylkill
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as a fuel, it took the company until Spring to sell it. Which was a good thing, winter generally closed the canal for 3–4 months, and icing and flooding both did a certain amount of damage requiring repairs to put the canal systems back online. This was a principal advantage held by railroads over
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and coke that before working metal furnaces. Anthracite was colloquially known as 'Stone Coal' or 'Rock Coal', and is difficult to burn without a stove or oven providing reflection and a carefully balanced bottom draft. When so provided, it burns very hot, clean and odorless, so today is still a
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to file with their petition to the
Pennsylvania legislature. This late filing put the project before the legislature for approval in March 1818, and the passage of the bill chartering the rights to modify the water coarse enabled the Lehigh transportation corporation to be formally incorporated
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project made its first test shipments of coal in 1819, proving the Lehigh's locks concept. Its delivery in 1820 of over 365 tons of
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where no stream existed to support the costly digging of a new ditch. Coal shifted away from canals to the more flexible means of bulk goods transportation. Where the established canals supplied, their markets mostly remained relatively stable and they generally remained competitive with only a
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with the latter's limited lock lengths; an artifact of having a state run a practical construction project without businessmen’s balancing viewpoints. In 1850, a price-fixing arrangement with the railroad stabilized prices for the transportation of anthracite. This decade was the
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was abandoned. By 1904 the anthracite traffic had almost completely ceased, and after 1913 only an occasional cargo passed between Port
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Philadelphia each year as the Schuylkill Navigation. In response, the Schuylkill Navigation Company enlarged its canals; by 1847, they could accommodate the passage of boats carrying 230 tons of
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to Phoenixville. This canal paralleled the top end of the Oakes Reach, on the opposite side or the river. While the Chester County Canal was initially built to provide water power to the mill, in 1847 it carried scheduled passenger service between Phoenixville and
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gradual erosion of market share as decades passed. Eventually, oil heat and their perennial problems of delivering in winter's cold diminished their role. The self-examination during the early years of the
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has a restored Locktender's house on E. Wall Street. The adjacent lock had long been filled with a car wash located on the site, but in 2011, the lock car wash was removed, and the lock unearthed. Near
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leisurely descents. In point of fact, canals in the United States rarely kept their original configurations and improvements continued over their life; if for no other reason, periodically ice damage and
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attracted investors and speculators from all along the Eastern Seaboard to capitalize and fund similar companies. This began a deluge of private canal and canal resumption projects in the 1820s. The
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While many of the dams still stand, few watered stretches of the canal remain. Some 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of the original 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long Oakes Reach between
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for working metals, and the transport of heavy loads of wood, and the then denuded timber stands near these communities had even made it cost effective to import
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near Pottsville. Combining 62 miles (100 km) of separate canals, often referred to as "reaches", with 46 miles (74 km) of slack water pools (so called
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Ironically, White and Hazard had trouble finding investors who believed both in the Navigation project and in the Mine Project, so were forced to take on
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1983:(First ed.). Oak Printing Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Center for Canal History and Technology, Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museum, Inc.,
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Navigation's most prosperous period; in 1859, its peak year, it transported 1,700,000 tons of cargo. However, in that same year the
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for 999 years, surrendering to the competition. Under the railroad's control, the Schuylkill Navigation continued to decline as a
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history, two of the principle investors in the Schuylkill Navigation Company were partner industrialists and mill owners
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between Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh. The Schuylkill Canal also featured the first transportation tunnel in
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Patten, Spiro G. (1980). "The Rivalry Between the Schuylkill Canal and the Reading Railroad for the Anthracite Trade".
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canal feeding steel mills ores from Central New Jersey and coal to New York and New Jersey Markets.
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of 1869 destroyed the mill "and very much injured the canal and its locks."
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and eastern markets. Along the tow-paths, mules pulled barges of coal from
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would end up closing most, as it did the Schuylkill Navigation Company.
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bridge form the "Schuylkill Navigation Canal, Oakes Reach Section"
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Bartholomew, Ann M.; Metz, Lance E.; Kneis, Michael (1989).
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occur pointing out shortcomings, leading to improvements.
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Fred Brenckman, Official Commonwealth Historian (1884).
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canals—such repairs were more uncommon on rail systems.
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2229:"Schuylkill Canal Towpath Restoration Project"
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2168:: Bavis & Pennypacker, printers. p.
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2135:"Exelon – Black Rock Dam and its history"
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715:Fred Brenckman, History of Carbon County
672:Fred Brenckman, History of Carbon County
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2375:NRHP Registration Form for Oakes Reach
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1751:"National Register Information System"
1552:Schuylkill Canal – Navigation joining
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1945:HISTORY OF CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
1910:HISTORY OF CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
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2370:PA Historical Marker and information
2326:Schuylkill Navigation Collection at
2302:Historic American Engineering Record
2095:. Oxford University Press: 139–142.
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1727:Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
1706:Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
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3037:1827 establishments in Pennsylvania
2062:"The Schuylkill and Transportation"
1948:(2nd (1913) ed.). p. 627.
1456:List of canals in the United States
2211:"The Schuylkill Canal Association"
2193:"The Schuylkill Canal Association"
1888:. New York: W. W. Munsell & Co
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884:Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
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2334:Period company documents and maps
1844:, Reading Area Community College.
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868:Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
850:Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
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730:Southern Anthracite Coal Fields
645:Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
2328:Reading Area Community College
1804:James E. Held (July 1, 1998).
679:The Delaware and Lehigh Canals
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2358:Friends of the Manayunk Canal
2089:Business and Economic History
1953:downloadable full pdf version
1539:– Another important American
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1419:Bridge over Schuylkill Canal.
844:Competition with the railroad
773:with the Schuylkill Canal at
613:Schuylkill Navigation Company
215:Show map of the United States
2364:Schuylkill Canal Association
2346:Upper Schuylkill River canal
2317:Lower Schuylkill River canal
2156:Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker
1649:it was so new and distrusted
1647:the Philadelphia docks, and
1084:Schuylkill Canal Association
984:Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
820:, manufactured products and
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990:from the Schuylkill River.
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1979:DELAWARE and LEHIGH CANALS
1779:Historical Marker Database
1471:Delaware and Raritan Canal
1407:Locks on Schuylkill Canal.
958:Delaware and Raritan Canal
637:Delaware and Raritan Canal
276:155.3 acres (62.8 ha)
229:Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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1547:Pennsylvania Canal System
1509:Delaware and Hudson Canal
1004:Phoenixville Branch Canal
888:Pennsylvania Canal System
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633:Delaware and Hudson Canal
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599:The far flung system of
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1907:Fred Brenckman (1884).
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1641:Little Schuylkill River
1485:– A canal crossing the
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1208:Lock 61 Tender's House
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2997:Canals in Pennsylvania
2440:Keeper of the Register
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1685:Lehigh Valley Railroad
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1370:Schuylkill River Trail
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1541:Industrial Revolution
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32:Schuylkill Navigation
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1985:Easton, Pennsylvania
1810:Archaeology (Online)
1637:Panther Creek Valley
1531:Easton, Pennsylvania
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1000:Chester County Canal
994:Chester County Canal
704:Panther Creek Valley
617:water transportation
455:Canal Original Start
325:Designated PHMC
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18:Chester County Canal
2182:Pennypacker, p. 168
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1503:Delaware Bay
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248:75°30′09.5″W
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2971:NRHP portal
2911:Other lists
2870:Center City
2794:Susquehanna
2744:Northampton
2072:January 13,
2046:October 30,
1981:, 158 pages
1864:February 8,
1629:Summit Hill
1604:corporation
1566:Union canal
1554:Reading, PA
1517:navigations
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892:Alleghenies
767:Union Canal
742:Erie Canals
726:Port Carbon
562:Port Carbon
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381:Start point
368:Date closed
320:May 6, 1988
260: /
236:Coordinates
69:boat length
2986:Categories
2855:Pittsburgh
2819:Washington
2774:Schuylkill
2734:Montgomery
2679:Lackawanna
2659:Huntingdon
2609:Cumberland
2589:Clearfield
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1017:Norristown
970:New Jersey
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2502:Armstrong
2497:Allegheny
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1694:trackage!
1513:canal age
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576:markets.
504:Canal End
471:End point
376:Geography
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966:monopoly
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2654:Greene
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231:, U.S.
117:Status
57:Length
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2799:Tioga
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