Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 29, 1818
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 96
Additional Source Text:
"In digging the canal at Roxbury Phila. County. foun[d] in 1816."
Notes:
The Manayunk Canal, near the Roxborough section of Philadelphia, makes up a two-mile section of the 108-mile Schuylkill Navigation System and was built to bring anthracite coal to the coastal cities and ports by way of canal barge. Water power from the canal allowed thirty-eight mills to thrive in 19th-century Manayunk. It was under construction at the time of this donation, and the first toll was collected in March 1819 / https://hiddencityphila.org/2012/02/restoration-of-manayunk-canal/
