File:View looking NW at adqueduct. - Wiconisco Canal Aqueduct No. 3, Spanning Powell Creek at State Route 147, Halifax, Dauphin County, PA HAER PA,22-HAFX.V,1-2.tif

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View looking NW at adqueduct. - Wiconisco Canal Aqueduct No. 3, Spanning Powell Creek at State Route 147, Halifax, Dauphin County, PA
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Lowe, Jet, creator
Title
View looking NW at adqueduct. - Wiconisco Canal Aqueduct No. 3, Spanning Powell Creek at State Route 147, Halifax, Dauphin County, PA
Description
Harrison, William R; Mish, George; Pennsylvania Canal Company; Bailey, John P; Rutherford, John P; Sallade, Simon; Corbett, William; Corbett, J C; Wiconisco Canal Company; Pennsylvania Railroad; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, sponsor; Shackleford, Ben A, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Dauphin County; Halifax
Date 1999
date QS:P571,+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,22-HAFX.V,1-2
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  • Significance: Originally a component of the Pennsylvania Canal system, this aqueduct was the largest bridge on the state-initiated and privately completed Wiconisco Canal. Hewn from the foot of Peter's Mountain where it forms the eastern bank of the Susquehanna River, the canal facilitated the transportation of coal from the anthracite fields of northern Dauphin County southward to the East Branch through Harrisburg, and thence to points east...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N601
  • Survey number: HAER PA-496
  • Building/structure dates: 1838-1840 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after. 1890- before. 1928 Subsequent Work
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