Canal Sites

Upcoming events

The National Canal Museum is open – see canals.org for seasonal hours of operation

Field Trips

Saturday October 19, 2024

PCS Spring Tour – Wyoming Valley - White Haven, PA (pacanals.info@gmail.com)

This tour includes lunch at a pub and will be a caravan tour covering:

o   Easily accessible sites on the Ashley Plains

o   Site of the Huber Colliery and Breaker

o   Mill Creek Aqueduct remains on the Wyoming Extension Canal.

o   North Branch Canal Basin (currently the site of the Luzerne County Courthouse)

o   Dam 20, Lock 29 at the upper end of the Lehigh Navigation

o   Lock 28 on the Lehigh Navigation

Registration is a must. Cost is $30. Call or text Doug Logan for more at 610-955-6436.or email pacanals.info@gmail.com

Invitation and Registration

Friday - Sunday October 18 - 20, 2024

CSNYS Fall Tour - Black River Canal – Boonville to Carthage

Online registration at

https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/newyorkcanals/items/576859/?full-items=yes&flow=no

The Friday program is by car to Stillwater Dam which dates to the 1880s to supply water for the Black River. Later that day we will have a tour of the Black River Canal Museum in Boonville followed by a great buffet dinner and program at the Awesome Country Farmhouse just across the street from the Museum. On Saturday a bus tour will begin at the Lodge at Headwaters and head to Carthage, exploring canal history at Castorland, Beaver Falls, and Glenfield. The historic Hulbert House in Boonville is now the Woodland Farm Brewery, where there’ll be a Saturday dinner featuring even more barbecue and liquid refreshments. On Sunday an escorted tour in personal cars will be provided of canal sites in Forestport and on the canal reservoir at North Lake.

Annual Programs

Last Sunday in June

Annual Canal Day (Schuylkillcanal.org; 610-917-0021)

The SCA invites the community to its Annual Canal Day celebration at Lock 60 and St. Michael’s Park in Mont Clare, PA, across the river from Phoenixville. This day full of fun along the Schuylkill Canal Park includes food, music, kids fishing derby, face painting, Sly Fox Can Jam, etc. Event parking is available at St. Mike’s Park at the end of Jacobs Street in Mont Clare. Parking donation requested. Please be advised, Towpath Road will be closed to vehicular traffic, starting at 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM.

Children of all ages can join in with adult supervision, free of charge, however donations will gladly be accepted.

Special Programs

TBD

Conferences

Saturday - Wednesday September 21-25, 2025

World Canals Conference – Buffalo, NY - www.wcc2025buffalo.com

Buffalo and the Erie Canal Bicentennial create an ideal setting and moment for the World Canals Conference 2025. Built around the theme of ‘Sustaining our Multidimensional Waterways,’ WCC 2025 will bring together the leading minds in diverse fields to discuss, debate, discover, and inspire. Attendees will partake in expertly guided field sessions, gain access to exclusive tours in the days leading up to or following the conference, and witness history repeating itself with the send-off ceremony for the replica canal boat Seneca Chief. This traditionally built, full-size replica of the same boat that opened the Erie Canal two hundred years ago departs Buffalo for New York City, replicating the 1825 journey that became known as the Wedding of the Waters.

Pa. Canal Society C/O Emrick Technology Center 2750 Hugh Moore Park Rd. Easton, Pa 18042 administrator