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Anthracite and Slackwater The North Branch Canal 1828-1901 w/Dust jacket
Anthracite and Slackwater The North Branch Canal 1828-1901
Anthracite and Slackwater
The North Branch Canal 1828-1901
F. Charles Petrillo
Hard Cover dust jacket (Has some damage)
280 Pages
Copyright 1986
Contents
PREFACEVII
A PRIMER ON CANALS3
PART IANTHRACITE: DISCOVERY AND VISION
CHAPTER 1 THE ANTHRACITE CANAL MOVEMENT11
The Story of Anthracite
Anthracite in the Wyoming Valley
Jacob Cist: Anthracite Advocate
The Philadelphia Fuel Crisis
The Schuylkill and Lehigh Canals
Agitation for Susquehanna Improvements
PART IITHE NORTH BRANCH CANAL SYSTEM
CHAPTER 2 THE PENNSYLVANIA CANAL MOVEMENT31
CHAPTER 3 THE NORTH BRANCH CANAL 1828-183139
The North Branch Surveys
The Nanticoke Dam
The Pioneer Canal Boats
CHAPTER 4 THE WYOMING DIVISION 1831-183459
CHAPTER 5 THE NORTH BRANCH EXTENSION 1836-184873
The Ritter Years
The Porter Years
The North Branch Canal Company
CHAPTER 6 REBIRTH OF THE EXTENSION 1849-185697
Rebuilding the Canal
W. R. Maffet: Engineer
Sale of the Branch Canals
PART III THE ANTHRACITE CANAL YEARS
CHAPTER 7 THE EARLY YEARS 1832-1840125
Floods and Destruction
The Union Canal
The Early Wyoming Valley Coal Industry
The Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal Company
Packet Boats
CHAPTER 8 THE MIDDLE YEARS 1841-1858141
The Anthracite Iron Industry
Beach Haven Weigh Lock
Anthracite Railroads and Steamboats
Pittston Ferry in 1850
The Boom Years
Wilkes-Barre
Packet Boats Revisited
CHAPTER 9 LIFE ON THE NORTH BRANCH CANAL163
Canal Administration
The Boatman's Life
Events Along the Nanticoke Pool
PART IV THE FINAL YEARS: THE PRIVATE NORTH BRANCH CANAL COMPANIES
CHAPTER 10 THE NORTH BRANCH CANAL COMPANY AND THE
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK CANAL AND
RAILROAD COMPANY 1858-1882189
CHAPTER 11 THE WYOMING CANAL COMPANY AND THE
WYOMING VALLEY CANAL COMPANY 1858-1869201
CHAPTER 12 THE PENNSYLVANIA CANAL COMPANY 1857-1901207
The Wyoming Field: Anthracite Leader
Susquehanna Coal Company
The End of the Wyoming Division
Boat Building at Espy
The End of the Company
PART VREMEMBRANCE
CHAPTER 13 THE BOATMEN'S REUNIONS227
CHAPTER 14 REMNANTS237
APPENDICES243
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS255
REFERENCES 259
There are several fascinating sides to the story of the North Branch Canal. Its history begins with the pre-historic geology of 300 million years ago. In the early nineteenth century, the canal's construction was formed from a raucous blend of frontier politics, banking schemes and engineering genius. Ten years after its construction began, the North Branch Canal was found to be an incredibly expensive contribution to the near bankruptcy of the state treasury. The canal was always at war with the shallow and meandering Susquehanna River, a sleeping giant which would rise each spring and fall and often smash the hopes of the coal barons and immigrant laborers who built the canal. In its upper reaches, the North Branch Extension nearly crushed the talents of the engineers, contractors and wild Irish laborers who sought to tame the wilderness of the Endless Mountains to extend the canal from the Wyoming Valley to New York State. When the canal was finally built to New York, it was quickly swallowed by an angry river and a new fire-breathing transportation technology called the railroad. When the last vestige of the North Branch Canal, the 55 mile link between West Nanticoke and Northumberland, was closed in 1901, a special era in the history of Northeastern Pennsylvania had ended.
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