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The National Canal Museum, officially the Hugh Moore Historical Park & Museums, is a museum in Easton, Pennsylvania, and part of the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. After a three-year transition during which the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor operated the canal museum under a management agreement, the two merged.
The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, more commonly called the Delaware Canal, runs for 60 miles (97 km) parallel to the right bank of the Delaware River from the entry locks near the mouth of the Lehigh River and terminal end of the Lehigh Canal at Easton south to Bristol.
Several canal segments or other canal infrastructure in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [6] One complete canal, the Delaware Canal, is the main feature of Delaware Canal State Park (formerly Theodore Roosevelt State Park) between Bristol and Easton. It is continuously intact for its full length of 60 miles ...
From Easton to Bristol, the trail is known as the Delaware Canal towpath, a 60-mile (97 km) section that passes entirely through Delaware Canal State Park. The Delaware Canal towpath is a National Recreation Trail. [4] The highest point on the trail is 1,785 ft (544 m) in Mountain Top; the lowest point is 20 ft (6.1 m) in Bristol.
Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census.Easton is located at the confluence of the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) river that joins the Delaware River in Easton and serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
The 108-mile canal operated from 1828 to 1898, shipping coal from the mines in northeastern Pennsylvania to market. The canal stretched through Wayne and Pike counties, crossing the Delaware River ...
Canal Museum, Hugh Moore Park, Pa. 611, Easton ... S Delaware Dr. (PA 611) at S junction w/ Canal Rd., S of Raubsville ... former PA 115), just N of Easton
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