Canal Mules
Canal News – Winter 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025LOOKING FORWARD TO 2025 During our recent Annual Friends Membership Meeting, the focus was on the future, one filled with opportunities to improve and expand thepark experience and the Friends’ role in making that happen. In 2024, there was a great deal of construction along the canal and towpath and many sections of the canal […]
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Canal News – Spring 2023
Friday, May 19, 2023Few people who lived and worked along the Canal could imagine building a life without the mule. Mules, it is said, were the engines of the Canal. Or put another way, the workhorses
moving coal from Mauch Chunk (present-day Jim Thorpe) to Bristol.