Schuylkill Canal Drawbridge

Schuylkill Canal Lock, one of 109 locks on the canal.

Barge on the river.  Coal was the main commodity transported.

Black Rock covered bridge drawing

Back Rock Dam at canal entrance

Bridge at Black Rock & toll collectors house

Canal and Mont Clare

Recent photo of the canal and towpath

Canal and Schuylkill River

Canal workers

Canoeing on canal

Coal barge

Dam & entrance to Phoenixville Canal

Lock # 60 on the Schuylkill Canal opened in 1825

Drawing of barge in lock

Another drawing of barge in lock

Empty barge at Lock # 60

Fishing on canal at Phoenixville

Home along canal

Lock # 60 in operation

Lock # 60 looking North

Lock at the turn of the Twentieth Century

Lock # 60 in operation

Lock opening

Recent photo of locktenders house

Locktender at work

Map of Oakes Reach

Mont Clare along canal

Mule walk on the covered bridge over the Schuylkill River

Port Providence

Swimming in the canal

Towing a barge

Towpath and barge

Workers on Black Rock Dam

Barges at canal, early 1900s

Black Rock Dam about 1900

Black Rock Dam about 1910

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

Canal workers

Black Rock view toward Indian Point, c. 1906

Schuylkill Canal, c. 1910

Port Providence

Mont Clare, 19th Century

Empty Barges at Lock # 60

Dam & Entrance to Phoenixville Canal

Canal Permit, 1909

Canal fee document, 1852

1896 barge schematic

Cong shell signal

Clock from Locktenders House

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