40°34′42″N76°01′35″W / 40.57833°N 76.02639°W / 40.57833; -76.02639 (Canal Start) (originally 40°41′37″N76°09′52″W / 40.69361°N 76.16444°W / 40.69361; -76.16444 (Canal Original Start)) (18 miles (29 km) above Port Clinton abandoned by December 1887)
The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, built as a commercial waterway in the early 19th-century. Chartered in 1815, the navigation opened in 1825, to provide transportation and water power.
At the time, the Schuylkill River was the least expensive and most efficient method of transporting bulk cargo, and cities on the U.S. East Coast were experiencing an energy crisis.[3] It fostered the mining of anthracite coal as the major source of industry between Pottsville and eastern markets. Along the tow-paths, mules pulled barges of coal from Port Carbon through the water gaps to Pottsville; locally to the port and markets of Philadelphia; and some then by ship or through additional New Jersey waterways, to New York City markets.
The Schuylkill Canal was in operation until 1931[4] and was almost completely filled in the 1950s.[5] Some remaining watered reaches are now used for recreation.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^"PHMC Historical Markers". Historical Marker Database. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
^James E. Held (July 1, 1998). "The Canal Age". Archaeology (Online) (July 1, 1998). A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved June 12, 2016. On the settled eastern seaboard, forest decimation created an energy crisis for coastal cities, but the lack of water- and roadways made English coal shipped across the Atlantic cheaper in Philadelphia than Pennsylvania anthracite mined 100 miles away.
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History of the Schuylkill Navigation System Archived 2016-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, Reading Area Community College.
^"History of SRN". www.racc.edu. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
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