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PCS Spring Tour 2025

Saturday Saturday - Monday May 17-19, 2025

Schuylkill Navigation Bicentennial - Part 2

PCS Spring Tour, Part 2 - The Upper and Lower Sections of the Navigation were joined in Reading on May 20, 1825.  For the three days before the Bicentennial Day, open houses and events will be held at individual historical societies and parks along the Navigation, with a  Conference on Sunday May 18, "At the Confluence of Navigation History: Past, Present, and Future," at C. Howard Hiester Canal Center at the Berks County Heritage Center.  There is no charge Saturday and Monday which will feature driving/walking tours of important sites of the Navigation.  Check the website below for the registration form for Sunday May 18 and additional information.

Schuylkill Navigation Bicentennial Events - Reading, PA

 

Past Field Trips

Spring 2025 - Schuylkill Navigation Bicentennial Canal-Rail All-day Tour

Fall 2024 - Wyoming Valley - White Haven, PA

Spring 2024 - Erie Extension Canal - Hermitage, PA

Fall 2023 - Genesee Valley Canal in and near Letchworth State Park, Mt. Morris

Spring 2023 - Joint Spring Tour with CSO, Muskingum River Cruise

 Fall 2022 - Delaware & Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad

Spring 2022 - Upper Grand Division of the Lehigh Navigation

Fall 2021 - Pittsburgh River Boat Tour

Spring 2021 - Lower Division of the Lehigh Navigation

Fall 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak

Spring 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak

Fall 2019 - Western Morris Canal - Easton to Lake Hopatcong Feeder

Spring 2019 - Susquehanna and Tidewater Canals

Fall 2018 - Joint Trip with Canal Society of Ohio - Portage Lakes to the Portage Summit

Spring 2018 - Delaware Canal - New Hope to Easton (Joint tour with Canal Society of New York State)

Fall 2017 - Delaware & Raritan Canal Feeder

Spring 2017 - Middle Section of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Fall 2016 - Allegheny Portage Railroad

Spring 2016 - The Legacy of the WPA in Stark County

Fall 2015 - Northern Schuylkill Navigation

Spring 2015 - Joint tour of Beaver Division, Pennsylvania Canal

Fall 2014 - Eastern Morris Canal in New Jersey

Spring 2014 - Joint venture with Canal Society of Ohio

Fall 2013 - Union Canal from Middletown to Reading

Spring 2013 - Delaware & Hudson Canal Rondout to Alligerville

Fall 2012 - Pine Grove Branch of the Union Canal

Spring 2012 - Delaware & Hudson Canal in Pennsylvania & New York

Fall 2011 - Pennsylvania Mainline Canal Juniata Division

Spring 2011 - Lower Division Lehigh Navigation

Fall 2010 - Eastern Division Mainline Canal

Spring 2010 - Upper Grand Division of Lehigh Navigation

Fall 2009 - The Delaware Canal

Spring 2005 - The Union Canal     Photos

Fall 2007 - The Pennsylvania Canal      Photos

 

   

 

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