Historian Ronald Halackna said canals helped greatly increase the population of New Castle in the 1800s, going from 611 people in 1838 to 6,000 by 1871. One of these canals was The Erie Canal ...

Pa. - Driving down Route 32 ... stone and masonry bridge carries 2600 vehicles a day over the Delaware canal. Sitting in front of the Sand Castle Winery, it's now a 13-mile detour to get back ...

In the mid-1800s, a manmade body of water, measuring some 600 yards long and up to 100 yards wide, covered what is now Old Conemaugh Borough Historic District. There were docks, railroad tracks, a ...

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That was when the canal came to Liverpool. The Susquehanna Canal, later known as the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania ...

The Pennsylvania Canal Company changed their plans, making Brown’s properties nearly worthless. His business associates wanted to sell, but Brown stubbornly told them to hold on, that the market ...

Halackna said while it is part of the Pennsylvania Canal system, the Erie Canal Extension was not part of the official Pennsylvania Canal. The state sold the Erie Canal to private investors in 1842.