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Lehigh Canal

Canal on Allegheny Plateau, Appalachian Mountains in Walnutport, PA

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The Lehigh Canal or Lehigh Navigation was a 'navigation'-type canal. It constructed in two parts--a lower and an upper section built over a span of twenty years from 1818. Its sections were engineered to bypass rapids in the Lehigh River in Eastern Pennsylvania. The canal moved Allegheny anthracite coal to the cities of the coast and ran to an eventual length of 72-mile (116 km). At its terminus, other entities would scramble to build canals and railroads to distribute the 'fuel of choice of the day' to all the Eastern Seaboard of America and ocean going ships. Anthracite would not only banish the worries of the nation's first energy crises as deforestation raised firewood and fuel prices and incurred ever increasing transportation costs, but also make iron plentiful, revolutionizing…

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