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Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal
(U.S. National Register of Historic Places)
Location:	Easton, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	40°41′17.06″N, 75°12′18.33″W
Built/Founded:	1831
Added to NRHP:	October 29, 1974
NRHP Reference#:	74001756 [1]
MPS:	Covered Bridges of the Delaware River Watershed TR (AD)
Governing body:	State

The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal runs from the Lehigh River at Easton to Bristol. It runs parallel to the Delaware River generally within sight of the river.

The canal was built to carry coal, limestone, cement, and lumber from the northeastern reaches of Pennsylvania to Philadelphia

The canal was built in the middle decades of the 19th century and ran its last commercial traffic in the 1930s. Mule-drawn barges have provided rides for tourists and chartered private parties running from the locks at New Hope to a point about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) above Centre Bridge since the late 1950s.

The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal and its towpath became the Theodore Roosevelt State Park in the early 1950s when the berms were restored and the canal was refilled with water. The park was renamed the Delaware Canal State Park in 1989.

Portions of the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal towpath were washed away or damaged during the flooding events that have affected the Delaware Valley since 2004. A number of sections of the towpath remain closed and impassable, including a long stretch north of Washington Crossing and sections south of Riegelsville. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) has plans to refurbish the washed out sections of the canal in the Spring of 2008.

• Lehigh Canal - A sister canal in the Lehigh Valley that fed coal traffic to the Delaware Canal via a connection in Easton, Pennsylvania.
• Delaware and Raritan Canal - A New Jersey canal connection to the New York market across the Delaware River.
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal - A canal crossing the Delmarva Peninsula in the states of Delaware and Maryland, connecting the Chesapeake Bay with the Delaware Bay.

• Delaware Canal Photos
• PADEP Delaware Canal State Park
• Delaware Canal History

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