Wiconisco Canal
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The Wiconisco Canal ran 12 miles (19 km) along the east bank of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from a dam pool near the mouth of the Juniata River at Duncan's Island to its northern terminus at Millersburg. The state began construction of the canal in 1838.[1]
The canal was a feeder to the canals of the Main Line of Public Works, part of the complex system known as the Pennsylvania Canal. Between Millersburg and Duncan's Island, the Wiconisco Canal descended 35 feet (11 m) overcome by 14 locks.[2] In 1845, the state transferred the canal, almost complete, to the Wiconisco Canal Company, which used it to ship coal from mines in the Lykens Valley.[2] The canal continued to operate until 1890.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Shank, William H. (1986). The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals, 150th Anniversary Edition. York, Pennsylvania: American Canal and Transportation Center, 56. ISBN 0-933788-37-1.
- ^ a b Poor, Henry Varnum (1860). History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States. New York: J.H. Schultz and Company, 557.
- ^ Kapsch, Robert J. (2004). Canals. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 74. ISBN 0393730883.
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