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Lehigh Canal and Schuylkill River

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Difference between Lehigh Canal and Schuylkill River

Lehigh Canal vs. Schuylkill River

The Lehigh Canal or the Lehigh Navigation Canal is a navigable canal, beginning at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River in Eastern Pennsylvania. The Schuylkill River is an important river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania, which was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal.

Similarities between Lehigh Canal and Schuylkill River

Lehigh Canal and Schuylkill River have 21 things in common (in Unionpedia): Anthracite, Anthracite iron, Ark (river boat), Canal, Coal Region, Delaware, Delaware River, Easton, Pennsylvania, Erie Canal, Erskine Hazard, Josiah White, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, Lehigh River, Little Schuylkill River, Main Line of Public Works, New Jersey, Panther Creek Valley, Pennsylvania, Rail yard, Schuylkill Canal, Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.

Anthracite

Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.

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Anthracite iron

Anthracite iron or Anthracite 'Pig Iron' is the substance created by the smelting together of anthracite coal and iron ore, that is using Anthracite coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron ores — and was an important historic advance in the late-1830s enabling great acceleration the industrial revolution in Europe and North America.

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Ark (river boat)

In early periods of North American industrial development, an ark was a temporary boat used for river transport in eastern North America before slack-water canals (a lock system and appropriate dams allowing two way travel) and railroads made them obsolete.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Coal Region

The Coal Region is a historically important coal-mining area in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Ridge-and-valley Appalachian Mountains, comprising Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Carbon, Schuylkill, Northumberland, and the extreme northeast corner of Dauphin counties.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

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Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal).

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Erskine Hazard

Erskine Hazard (1790-1865), a younger son of the first United States Postmaster Ebenezer Hazard, became the partner of Josiah White about 1810 when around 19 years old.

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Josiah White

Josiah White (1781–1850) was a key Pennsylvania industrialist who began early factory centered mill production in 1808 in water powered iron works near Philadelphia, along with his partner, Erskine Hazard when they quickly found their first mill at the Falls of the Schuylkill to be much too small.

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Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company

---> The Lehigh Coal & Navigation CompanyThe names "Lehigh Coal and Navigation" and 'Lehigh Coal & Navigation" occur in the legal and historical records of both eras.

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Lehigh River

The Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River, is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Little Schuylkill River

The Little Schuylkill River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Main Line of Public Works

The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation supporting a vision passed in 1826 — a collection of various long proposed canal and road projects that became a canal system (1824 proposals and studies) and later added railroads (amendments in 1828) designed to cross the breadth of Pennsylvania (mainly, southern) with the visionary goal of providing the best commercial means of transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Panther Creek Valley

In Eastern Pennsylvania, the valley of the Panther Creek tributary of the Little Schuylkill River, a very small and relatively short mountain creek, was historically important due to its stranglehold on energy production, a key region central to the industrial development of the United States from the 1820s through the 1870s, and remained important as an energy producing region until decline of the Eastern U.S. Steel Industries in the 1960s.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Rail yard

A rail yard, railway yard or railroad yard is a complex series of railroad tracks for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading, railroad cars and locomotives.

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Schuylkill Canal

Schuylkill Canal is the common, but technically inaccurate, name for the Schuylkill Navigation, a 19th-century commercial waterway in and along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

Tamaqua (pronounced tuh-MAH-qwah) is a borough in eastern Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lehigh Canal and Schuylkill River Comparison

Lehigh Canal has 104 relations, while Schuylkill River has 132. As they have in common 21, the Jaccard index is 8.90% = 21 / (104 + 132).

References

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