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Old 06-05-2017, 04:29 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Saw this and wanted to share. I feel like not enough people know about to this, and it is literally living history.

Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor partners with Smithsonian to bring history alive - WFMZ

The partnership ensures federal funding permanently for the organization to oversee the national canal museum and signage along the corridor.

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The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor was accepted into the Smithsonian Affiliate Network Saturday.It is the first national heritage area in America to gain that distinction. The D&L preserves the historic pathway that carried anthracite and iron from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia.
Saturday’s announcement coincided with the opening of the National Canal Museum’s 2017 season.
The museum is open for tours 11:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Visitors can also take a ride on the Josiah White II, Pennsylvania’s only mule-drawn canal boat ride.
Canal boat tours are 45 minutes long and leave the dock at noon, 1:00 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on weekends. Tours will run Wednesday through Sunday starting June 14. The boat does not sail on Mondays or Tuesdays.
The D&L Trail is a 165-mile scenic pathway that tells the story of America’s cultural and industrial history while passing through five counties.

The museum is in Easton and is definitely worth a trip imo. Combine it with the Crayola factory and it makes a good day trip for kids.

website: https://canals.org/

The corridor includes many of the original towns between Philly and Wilkes-Barre.

A drawing of what the canals were like in their heyday, circa 1873 (courtesy of wikipedia):



Map of the counties:


My own picture from last summer:
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