National Historic Landmark- Delaware Canal

The primary significance of this Landmark is the integrity of the canal itself and the ambience of its environment.

While most of the 19th century canals in the United States have disappeared, the Delaware Canal remains intact, with all of its engineering and operational structures, for all but two to three miles of its original sixty mile length.

Completed in the early 1830s, it was part of the state's extensive early 19th century canal system, and its particular purpose was to transport anthracite coal mined in the Lehigh Valley to markets throughout Pennsylvania and New York.

When the canal was returned to the state by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in 1931, Pennsylvania developed it as a state park.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

Image courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey