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Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 8 & Lockhouse, Island Park Road, Glendon, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 8 & Lockhouse, Island Park Road, Glendon, Nor...

Significance: 22 feet by 100 feet guard lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The first of now three locks in the 2.5 mile Section Eight between the Chain Dam and the outlet lock ... More

Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola Creek, Towamensing Trails, Carbon County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola Creek, Towamensin...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot outlet lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The last of seven locks in the four mile Section Two between Dam 2 and Bowmanstown and this outlet lock. ... More

Lehigh Canal, Slate Dam, Lehigh Canal opposite Laury's Station in Allen Township, Treichlers, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Slate Dam, Lehigh Canal opposite Laury's Station in Alle...

Significance: Originally built in 1829, the dam has been several times rebuilt, most recently in 1902 after it was carried away in the great flood of 1902 on February 28th of that year. In 1955 the dam was bre... More

Lehigh Canal, Hokendauqua Dam, Lehigh River 300 feet north of Hokendauqua-North Catasauqua Bridge, North Catasauqua, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Hokendauqua Dam, Lehigh River 300 feet north of Hokendau...

Significance: 416 foot stone and timber crib dam with an effective height of 6.9 feet, impounding a slackwater pool 2000 yards upstream to the outlet lock of Section Five. Originally built in 1829, the dam has... More

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 5, 2.4 miles upstream from Cementon-Northampton Bridge in Allen Township, Treichlers, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 5, 2.4 miles upstream from Cementon-Northampt...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot guard lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The first of five locks in the 3.8 mile Section Five between the Slate Dam and the outlet lock below Hoken... More

Lehigh Canal, Lock 25, 800 feet south of Walnutport-Slatington Bridge, Walnutport, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 25, 800 feet south of Walnutport-Slatington Bridge,...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot lock constructed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The third of seven locks (originally eight) in the four mile Section Three between the Lehigh Gap Dam and the outlet loc... More

Mauser Mill Company, Breadfruit Drive at Lehigh Canal, Treichlers, Northampton County, PA

Mauser Mill Company, Breadfruit Drive at Lehigh Canal, Treichlers, Nor...

Significance: This mid to late 19th century five-story roller mill originally drew water to power its turbine from the Lehigh Canal level above Lock 28, exhausting its tailrace under the canal through a culvert... More

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 5, 2.4 miles upstream from Cementon-Northampton Bridge in Allen Township, Treichlers, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 5, 2.4 miles upstream from Cementon-Northampt...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot guard lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The first of five locks in the 3.8 mile Section Five between the Slate Dam and the outlet lock below Hoken... More

Houses (General Views), Banks of Lehigh Canal, Walnutport, Northampton County, PA

Houses (General Views), Banks of Lehigh Canal, Walnutport, Northampton...

Survey number: HABS PA-5452 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 8 & Lockhouse, Island Park Road, Glendon, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 8 & Lockhouse, Island Park Road, Glendon, Nor...

Significance: 22 feet by 100 feet guard lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The first of now three locks in the 2.5 mile Section Eight between the Chain Dam and the outlet lock ... More

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-176 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Karl Bodmer Travels in America (5) (cropped)

Karl Bodmer Travels in America (5) (cropped)

'Aquatint' by Karl Bodmer (1809 - 1893). See: category:Lehigh River This is a view of the Lehigh River south-southeasterly across the so called 'slack water pool' above the lower Lehigh Canal as viewed from th... More

Lehigh Canal, Easton Dam, Confluence of Lehigh & Delaware Rivers, Easton, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Easton Dam, Confluence of Lehigh & Delaware Rivers, East...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Monocacy Creek Aqueduct, Lehigh Canal across Monocacy Creek, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Monocacy Creek Aqueduct, Lehigh Canal across Monocacy Cr...

Significance: One of four aqueducts constructed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in 1829. Although the other three made use of wooden troughs on stone abutments and piers, the Monocacy Creek Aqueduct,... More

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Pennsylvania stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who... More

Mauser Mill Company, Breadfruit Drive at Lehigh Canal, Treichlers, Northampton County, PA

Mauser Mill Company, Breadfruit Drive at Lehigh Canal, Treichlers, Nor...

Significance: This mid to late 19th century five-story roller mill originally drew water to power its turbine from the Lehigh Canal level above Lock 28, exhausting its tailrace under the canal through a culvert... More

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-176 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola Creek, Towamensing Trails, Carbon County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola Creek, Towamensin...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot outlet lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The last of seven locks in the four mile Section Two between Dam 2 and Bowmanstown and this outlet lock. ... More

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 5, 2.4 miles upstream from Cementon-Northampton Bridge in Allen Township, Treichlers, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Guard Lock 5, 2.4 miles upstream from Cementon-Northampt...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot guard lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The first of five locks in the 3.8 mile Section Five between the Slate Dam and the outlet lock below Hoken... More

Saquoit Silk Mill, On Sand Island, south bank of Lehigh Canal, west of Hill-to-Hill Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Saquoit Silk Mill, On Sand Island, south bank of Lehigh Canal, west of...

Significance: Four story brick silk mill with prominent triangular pilasters, capped with half-pyramidal stone blocks between each bay of windows and at the corners. Five story stair tower/elevator at east end... More

Lehigh Canal, Lock 44, North end of Freemansburg Borough, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 44, North end of Freemansburg Borough, Freemansburg...

Significance: The lock was constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The adjacent two and one-half story lockhouse (title is in dispute at present) is believed to be the last original lock... More

Houses (General Views), Banks of Lehigh Canal, Walnutport, Northampton County, PA

Houses (General Views), Banks of Lehigh Canal, Walnutport, Northampton...

Survey number: HABS PA-5452 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Lock 10, 2,300 feet south of Weissport-Lehighton Bridge, Weissport, Carbon County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 10, 2,300 feet south of Weissport-Lehighton Bridge,...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The tenth of twelve locks in the 5.5 mile Section One between Dam 1 at Jim Thorpe and the outlet lock at Parryvi... More

Lehigh Canal, Aquashicola Creek Aqueduct, Lehigh Canal at Aquashicola Creek, Towamensing Trails, Carbon County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Aquashicola Creek Aqueduct, Lehigh Canal at Aquashicola ...

Significance: One of four aqueducts built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Built on three wood-crib and stone piers, the aqueduct featured a wooden trough and towpath. Both abutments are in stable c... More

Lehigh Canal, Lock 40, Lehigh Canal where River & Canal turn North, Allentown, Lehigh County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Lock 40, Lehigh Canal where River & Canal turn North, Al...

Significance: 22 by 100 foot lock constructed in 1829 by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The second of eight locks in the long 11.1 mile Section Seven between Dam 7, a half mile to the north, and the o... More

Lehigh Canal Bethlehem Pa

Lehigh Canal Bethlehem Pa

Lehigh Canal, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Canal, Easton Dam, Confluence of Lehigh & Delaware Rivers, Easton, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Easton Dam, Confluence of Lehigh & Delaware Rivers, East...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Houses (General Views), Banks of Lehigh Canal, Walnutport, Northampton County, PA

Houses (General Views), Banks of Lehigh Canal, Walnutport, Northampton...

Survey number: HABS PA-5452 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-176 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1910 - Canal Boat on Lehigh Canal at Hamilton Street Bridge

1910 - Canal Boat on Lehigh Canal at Hamilton Street Bridge

1910 - Canal Boat on Lehigh Canal at Hamilton Street Bridge

Lehigh Canal, Easton Dam, Confluence of Lehigh & Delaware Rivers, Easton, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Easton Dam, Confluence of Lehigh & Delaware Rivers, East...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Freemansburg, Freemansburg, Northampton County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-176 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Street Bridge Views - Lehigh Canal - West.

New Street Bridge Views - Lehigh Canal - West.

Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century, vintage travel, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal, Outlet Lock, Canal Street, Easton, Northampton County, PA

Lehigh Canal, Outlet Lock, Canal Street, Easton, Northampton County, P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

1904 - Adams Island and Lehigh Canal with CRRNJ tracs

1904 - Adams Island and Lehigh Canal with CRRNJ tracs

The Lehigh Canal and the building of Dam #7, which became the Hamilton Street Dam changed the character of Allentown and the Lehigh Valley from an agricultural area to an industrial one in 1829. The Canal was... More

Saquoit Silk Mill, On Sand Island, south bank of Lehigh Canal, west of Hill-to-Hill Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Saquoit Silk Mill, On Sand Island, south bank of Lehigh Canal, west of...

Significance: Four story brick silk mill with prominent triangular pilasters, capped with half-pyramidal stone blocks between each bay of windows and at the corners. Five story stair tower/elevator at east end... More

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Picryl description: Public domain image of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, free to use, no copyright restrictions

1910 - Passing Through The Lehigh Canal Lock

1910 - Passing Through The Lehigh Canal Lock

1910 - Passing Through The Lehigh Canal Lock

1910 - Lehigh Canal with Canal Boat

1910 - Lehigh Canal with Canal Boat

1910 - Lehigh Canal with Canal Boat

USGS relief-Broad Mountain and Terrains it dominates west of the Lehigh Gorge and north of Tamaqua, Nesquehoning and Jim Thorpe, PA

USGS relief-Broad Mountain and Terrains it dominates west of the Lehig...

This is overview of the mountainous region dominated by Broad Mountain in Eastern Pennsylvania (Center of image, right bank of Lehigh River, below Weatherly, PA) illustrating its role historically as a barrier... More

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

1937 - Lehigh Navigation Coal Company - 13 Sep MC - Allentown PA

1937 - Lehigh Navigation Coal Company - 13 Sep MC - Allentown PA

Lehigh Navigation Coal Company - 13 Sep MC - Allentown PA

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Picryl description: Public domain image of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, free to use, no copyright restrictions

1909 - Saegers Mill Covered Bridge

1909 - Saegers Mill Covered Bridge

1909 - Saegers Mill Covered Bridge

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

New Street Bridge views, Lehigh Canal, east.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Canal Bridge at [?] Bethlehem. [New Street Bridge at Lehigh Canal.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania / - Public domain map

Map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania / - Public domain map

Hand col. to show township boundaries. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Purchase; Swann Galleries; 2007. LC copy... More

1900 - Lehigh Canal with Canal Boat

1900 - Lehigh Canal with Canal Boat

1900 - Lehigh Canal with Canal Boat

Lock 28 entrance, White Haven

Lock 28 entrance, White Haven

Gate entrance of Lock 28 near White Haven, 2008

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Lehigh Canal [dam's?] basin, Easton, Pa.

Pennsylvania stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who... More

Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor, Pennsylvania : Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal

Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor, Penns...

Panel title. Title at top: Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor. Includes text, location map, and col. ill. Text and ill. (some col.) on verso. Available also through the Library of C... More

1910 - View Along Lehigh Canal - Postcard - Allentown PA
Lehigh Lock 28 stacked detail

Lehigh Lock 28 stacked detail

Gate entrance of Lock 28 near White Haven, 2008

Lehigh Canal Lock 25

Lehigh Canal Lock 25

Photo by myself, DCwom June 2006 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78002439.

1910 - Lehigh Canal

1910 - Lehigh Canal

Lehigh Canal

1882 - Saegers Mill

1882 - Saegers Mill

Saeger's Mill was built in 1828 along the Lehigh Canal in the same year it was opened. It used water power purchased from the Lehigh Canal and Navigation Company, the owners of the canal. Originally a gris... More

Karl Bodmer Travels in America (5)

Karl Bodmer Travels in America (5)

'Aquatint' by Karl Bodmer (1809 - 1893). See: category:Lehigh River This is a view of the Lehigh River south-southeasterly across the so called 'slack water pool' above the lower Lehigh Canal as viewed from th... More

Pettinos Brothers Graphite Manufacturing Mill, On Sand Island, south side of Lehigh Canal, west of Hill-to-Hill Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Pettinos Brothers Graphite Manufacturing Mill, On Sand Island, south s...

Significance: Three story graphite mill built c.1900 is still in operation today grinding graphite for pigments. Survey number: HAER PA-147 Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Initial Construction

1951 - Saeger Mill Fire

1951 - Saeger Mill Fire

Saeger's Mill was built in 1828 along the Lehigh Canal. It was destroyed in less than an hour on October 9th 1951 in a massive fire that could be seen for 20 miles away.

1910 Lehigh Canal postcard

1910 Lehigh Canal postcard

1910 Lehigh Canal Public domain scan of the vintage Pennsylvania postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Weighing the Cargoes in the Weigh Lock on the Lehigh Canal

Weighing the Cargoes in the Weigh Lock on the Lehigh Canal

Down Among the Coal Mines -- Weighing the Cargoes in the Weigh-Lock on the Lehigh Canal, a wood engraving by Paul Frenzeny published in Harper's Weekly, February 1873. The canal was located a half mile south o... More

Chutes Loading the Canal Boats on the Lehigh Canal

Chutes Loading the Canal Boats on the Lehigh Canal

Down Among the Coal Mines -- Chutes Loading the Canal-Boats on the Lehigh Canal, a wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly, February 1873. Anthracite Coal was loaded at the foot of Mount Pisgah from above ... More