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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.
Lehigh Canal, White Haven to Easton, Grand Canal 72 miles (116 km) (1848-1862) The Lehigh was built in two stages, the lower canal running 46.2 miles (74.4 km) built in 1818-1820 connected the coal fields from the slack water pool at Jim Thorpe to Easton on the Delaware River, where it provided coal to the Delaware & Raritan Canal to New York ...
Lehigh Canal – A sister canal in the Lehigh Valley that fed coal traffic to the Delaware Canal via a connection in Easton, Pennsylvania. [b] Delaware and Raritan Canal – A New Jersey canal connection to the New York & New Jersey markets shipping primarily coal across the Delaware River. The D&R also shipped Iron Ore from New Jersey up the ...
In Easton, the canal met the Pennsylvania Canal's Delaware Division and Morris Canals, which allowed anthracite coal and other goods to be transported further up the U.S. East Coast. At its greatest extent, the Lehigh Canal was 72 miles (116 km) long.
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 ...
Hugh Moore State Park, PA 611, Easton: Roadside Business & Industry, Canals, Coal, Iron, Navigation, Transportation Lehigh-Lafayette Football Game: November 21, 2015 Lafayette College quad in front of Kirby House, Easton
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.
Democrats are outraged over President Donald Trump's proposal to "take over" and rebuild Gaza -- calling the plan everything from "horrifying" to "ethnic cleansing," while Republicans were ...