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  Updated August 16, 2010


Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area

204 Church Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460

    610-935-7646    www.phoenixvillehistoricalsociety.org   or   www.hspa-pa.org


Schuylkill Canal
 


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Schuylkill Canal Drawbridge


Schuylkill Canal Lock

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Barge on the River


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Black Rock Covered Bridge Drawing

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Back Rock Dam at Canal Entrance

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Bridge at Black Rock & Toll Collectors House

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Canal and Mont Clare

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Recent Photo of the Canal and Towpath

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Canal and Schuylkill River

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Canal Workers

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Canoeing on Canal

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Coal Barge

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Dam & Entrance to Phoenixville Canal

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Lock # 60 on the Schuylkill Canal opened in 1825

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Drawing of Barge in Lock

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Another Drawing of Barge in Lock

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Empty Barge at Lock # 60

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Fishing on canal at Phoenixville

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Home along Canal

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Lock # 60 in Operation

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Lock # 60 looking North

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Lock at the turn of the Twentieth Century

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Lock # 60 in Operation

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Lock Opening

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Recent photo of Locktenders House

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Locktender at Work

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Map of Oakes Reach

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Mont Clare along Canal

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Mule Passage on Covered Bridge

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Port Providence

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Swimming in the Canal

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Towing a Barge

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Towpath and Barge

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Workers on Black Rock Dam

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Barges at Canal, early 1900s

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Black Rock Dam about 1900

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Black Rock Dam about 1910

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Boat Houses along Canal in Mont Clare, early 20th C.

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Canal Workers

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Black Rock view toward Indian Point, c. 1906

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Schuylkill Canal, c. 1910

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Port Providence

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Mont Clare, 19th Century

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Empty Barges at Lock # 60

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Dam & Entrance to Phoenixville Canal

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Canal Permit, 1909

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Canal Fee Document, 1852

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1896 Barge Schematic

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Cong Shell Signal

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Clock from Locktenders House



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