STOCK TRANSFER – SCHUYLKILL NAVIGATION CO. 1881

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STOCK TRANSFER – SCHUYLKILL NAVIGATION CO. 1881
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Transfer of shares of stock of the Schuylkill Navigation Co. The Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated in 1815 for the purpose of making the Schuylkill River navigable. The "canal" or navigation system was constructed between Port Carbon and Philadelphia and covered a distance of 108 miles. Harry L. Rinker in his book, The Schuylkill Navigation: a Photographic History, points out that this "canal" was more properly a "navigation system" because it consisted of 18 dams, 23 canals which covered 57.73 miles, 120 locks, 17 stone aqueducts, one 450 foot long tunnel, 50.50 miles of slack water pools, 23 canals covering 57.73 miles, and 31 houses for toll and lock keepers when it was completed in May 1825. After 1825 efforts to improve the navigation system were ongoing, so the above number of structures changed over the years
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