Delaware Canal / Pennsylvania Canal
Delaware Canal
Here is Lock No. 12 in a series of 23 lift locks, numbered from Bristol to Easton. Just above here is one of the nine aquaducts by which the canal and its traffic crossed courses of small streams.
Pennsylvania Canal
A system of state-built public works to connect Philadephia, Pittsburgh, Lake Erie. The Delaware Division, Bristol - Easton, begun 1827; operated by the State 1831-58; and by private owners to 1931. A State Park since 1940.
Marker is on River Road (Pennsylvania Route 32), on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
