Erskine Hazard
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Erskine Hazard and his partner Josiah White were industrialists who developed infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeastern United States, which proved influential in usherin
A 19th century illustration of Hazard and Josiah White, his partner
Hazard assessed what was necessary to make the Lehigh River navigable, at least temporarily enough to float coal barges past obstacles and the constant grade road bed, which descended about 1,100 feet (340 m) in 9 miles (14 km) from Summit Hill to the coal chute designed by White to load barges in present-day Jim Thorpe.
Schuylkill Canal
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The Schuylkill Canal, or Schuylkill Navigation, was a system of interconnected canals, and slack-water pools created by dams, along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, built as a c
Lock 60 at Oakes Reach in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania
Taken between Port Providence and Lock 60
unissued share of the Schuylkill Navigation Company
Lock 60 miter gates and tow path bridge after their 2004–05 restoration