Main Line of Public Works
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The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation passed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826 to establish a means of transporting freight between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It funded the construction of various long-proposed canal and road projects, mostly in southern Pennsylvania, that became a canal system and later added railroads. Built between 1826 and 1834, it established the Pennsylvania Canal System and the Allegheny Portage Railroad.
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Main Line of Public Works
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Main Line of Public Works
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Main Line of Public Works
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Western Division-Pennsylvania Canal
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Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Juniata Division, Canal Section
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Philadelphia
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1974-09-17
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2002-02-20
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A network of east-west canals and connecting railroads spanned Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. North-south canals connecting with this east-west canal ran between West Virginia and Lake Erie on the west, Maryland and New York in the center, and along the border with Delaware and New Jersey on the east. Many shorter canals connected cities such as York, Port Carbon, and Franklin to the larger network.
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DeWitt Clinton, Jr.
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Canal
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Wiconisco Canal, Kittanning Feeder, Allegheny Outlet
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DeWitt Clinton, Jr.
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Pennsylvania Canal Commission
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1830
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Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Juniata Division, April 2010
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Map of historic Pennsylvania canals and connecting railroads
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Along the Conemaugh River, Bolivar, Derry Township, and Fairfield Township
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Pennsylvania
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Canals abandoned except for historic and recreational segments. Many railroad segments survive as part of the Keystone Corridor.
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The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation passed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826 to establish a means of transporting freight between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It funded the construction of various long-proposed canal and road projects, mostly in southern Pennsylvania, that became a canal system and later added railroads. Built between 1826 and 1834, it established the Pennsylvania Canal System and the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Later amendments substituted a new technology, railroads, in place of the planned but costly 82-mile (132 km) canal connecting the Delaware River (Philadelphia) to the Susquehanna River.
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Pennsylvania Canal
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1826
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1828
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Sold to Pennsylvania Railroad in 1857; last canal segment, near Harrisburg, closed in 1901
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1834
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Summit of the Allegheny Portage Railroad through Blair Gap
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Pittsburgh
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The Eastern Division Canal had 14 locks, the Juniata Division 86, and the Western Division 68.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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