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Houston is located at (40.249790, -80.210275). [5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2), all land. Several waterways go through Houston: Chartiers Creek flows through the borough.
Compare this map with its major roads of today and its terrains with the above canal system map. The Susquehanna Canal of the Pennsylvania Canal System was funded and authorized as part of the 1826 Main Line of Public Works enabling act, and would later become the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal under the Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
The Pennsylvania Canal, sometimes known as the Pennsylvania Canal system, was a complex system of transportation infrastructure improvements, including canals, dams, locks, tow paths, aqueducts, and viaducts. The canal was constructed and assembled over several decades beginning in 1824, the year of the first enabling act and budget items ...
A copy of a detailed survey blueprint of the entire canal system including structures and property ownership details was donated (date unknown) by the Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation to Millersville University (assessed on 10/06/2016 in the MU Archives at Sp. Coll. Map 386.409748 S128 Folio). The survey consists of 67 pages, 98 x 30 cm. and ...
Canal walls made of stone still stand near Muncy, while other canal and lock remnants are preserved near Lock Haven. [10] Archaeological work and restoration began in 2005 at the Muncy Canal Heritage Park and Nature Trail, 11 acres (4.5 ha ) including remains of a towpath , a lock, a canal wall, and a lock tender's house. [ 11 ]
Liverpool is located along the Susquehanna River and U.S. Routes 11 and 15 at the eastern terminus of Pennsylvania Route 17.. The borough is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Harrisburg in Dauphin County and 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Selinsgrove in Snyder County.
Millersburg is located in northwestern Dauphin County on the east bank of the Susquehanna River at (40.541676, -76.957283 Wiconisco Creek enters the Susquehanna at the southern edge of the borough. According to the United States Census Bureau , Millersburg has a total area of 0.76 square miles (1.97 km 2 ), all land.
Freeport was a port on the former Pennsylvania Canal. [15] Twenty-seven lots on the lands became Freeport borough, and were conveyed by William and David Todd for $24 each in 1797. This land was originally part of Westmoreland County but by the time the town was laid out, it had been made part of Allegheny County.