History of the North Branch Canal in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields. The Canal was an important part of the transportation of coal from Pennsylvania to New York, although it fought a long and frustrating battle against the Susquehanna River and the new technology of the railroads.

Anthracite and Slackwater: The North Branch Canal, 1828-1901

Engineering & Transportation

F. Charles Petrillo

Transportation

Center for Canal History &

<p>Outlines the history of steamboats on the Susquehanna in the Wyoming Valley area of northeastern Pennsylvania. "The Wyoming Valley steamboats, of course, were never on the scale of the mighty Mississippi sidewheelers, or the Ohio or Allegheny sternwheelers. The local steamboats were nevertheless a curious, fascinating sidelight to our regional transportation history."</p>

Steamboats On The Susquehanna : The Wyoming Valley Experience

History

Americas

Wyoming Historical & Geological Society

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