Spring field trip 2010
The upper grand division Lehigh navigation
April 16, 17, & 18, 2010
Headquarters
The Hampton inn at Lehighton, pa
RT 209, Lehighton, pa ¼ mile n. of pa turnpike exit 74
Friday, April 16- 4:00 to 6:00 pm Registration- Hampton Inn lobby.
7:30 pm Welcome & Orientation Program
featuring a presentation of the Richardson
glass plate slides by Lance Metz and
historical views by Gordon Perry.
Saturday, April 17- 7:00 - 7:50 am Late/ Final Registration.
Continental Breakfast.
8:00amsharp Board 15 passenger vans for
excursion thru Lehigh Gorge.
5:00 pm Return to Hampton Inn.
6:00pm Pre dinner gathering at Trainer’s Inn.
7:00 pm Family Style Buffet Dinner & Evening Program
featuring Mauch Chunk historians,
John Drury and Micheal Nonamaker.
Sunday, April 18 10:00 - until ? Optional tours:
MauchChunkMuseum.
Mount Pisgah Plane.
Weatherly LVRR shops.
Glen Onoko (conditions permitting).
Swithback Gravity Railroad.
Stoddartsville 19th century industrial
development
Please contact the Hampton Inn, Lehighton, @610-377-3400directly to reserve your room. Please mention PA Canal Society to obtain a special rate of $ 89 (+ tax), either single king or double Queen; deluxe continental breakfast included. Pool, fitness center & high speed internet on premises. Trainer’s Innis next door.
Program
On Friday evening, Lance Metz will present the Richardson Glass plate slides including views of some of the highest lift locks ever built on a towpath canal. These glass plate slides were produced in the 20’s and 30’s by one of our early society pioneers, George Atwell Richardson. This is a rare presentation of an obsolete medium valued for its high clarity. Following Lance's presentation, Gordon Perry will present historical views of lock ruins and canal features as they appear today, and there will be an overview of some of the sites we will be visiting on Saturday’s excursion.
On Saturday we will board rented 15 passenger vans for a trip to visit lock sites, dam sites,
and manyadditional points of interest along the Upper Grand section of the Lehigh Navigation, a slack water navigation system primarily designed to bring coal to Philadelphia. At White Haven, we will view the remains of the uppermost lock and dam in the system. We will then proceed southward and enter the Lehigh National Corridor trail where we will be escorted by Diane Madl, a member of the LehighGorgeState Park personnel.
Some of the sites we will be viewing include the following:
- Lock 28- in excellent condition; with a lift of 22 feet; filling tunnel is visible that was
designed to reduce the time necessary to fill lock chambers with the
immense dimensions of the LehighCanal locks.
- Lehigh Tannery- view the remains of Lock 27 which had the highest lift (30 feet!)
on the Lehigh Navigation system.
- view the remains of a tannery operated by the Thomas Small
Company, at one time the largest tannery in the country, processing
Over 50,000 hides per year!
- view the remains of another milling complex devoted to the
logging industry.
- Locks 25, 24, 22-massive locks in excellent condition!
- Mud Run- site of impressive stone archway for the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
- Rockport- the terminus of the Buck Mountain Gravity Railroad; we will see the rock
cut tunnel, another feeder of coal to the Lehigh Navigation.
- Penn Haven Junction & Planes- view the remains of the steam driven plains where
iron bands were used to lower coal cars to the Lehigh Navigation; also the site of the Beaver Meadow RR junction with the Lehigh Navigation and the site of the only railroad station accessible only by rail.
- Ox Bow Bend- pipeline bridge.
- Glen Onoko
- Lock 2 and remains of railroad turntable.
- Additional seldom seen canal artifacts will be shown throughout the trip.
Upon returning to the hotel, we will meet at Trainer’s Inn for the evening banquet and
program. John Drury and Michael Nunnamacher will present on the Switchback Railroad.
John Drury has been promoting Jim Thorpe’s architectural and historical legacy thru his
MauchChunkMuseum, and is currently spearheading a movement to bring a working
plane back to Jim Thorpe. John Nunnamacher is curator at the MauchChunkMuseum.
Pennsylvania Canal Society Spring field Trip
April 16, 17, & 18 2010
Please complete the form below and send on or before April 10 to Bill Lampert, 432 Quarry Rd.Ottsville, Pa18942 (Phone: 215 262 5506 fax: 610 847 8427) Please register early so we may have enough transportation available to accommodate everyone.
No refunds after April 10, 2010
Name______Telephone______
Address______
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Name(s) for name tag(s ______
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_____ PCS Member: full event package (including Friday Evening Presentation,
Saturday excursion to Stoddartsville, Lehigh Tannery, LehighGorgeState
Park and lunch, and Saturday Evening banquet & Presentation
$ 79.00 per person
_____ PCS Non Member: same as above
$ 84.00 per person
_____ PCS Member: Friday Evening Presentation, Saturday excursion thru
LehighGorgeState Park and lunch
$ 59.00 per person
_____ PCS Non-Member: Friday Evening Presentation, Saturday excursion
thru LehighGorgeState Park and lunch
$ 64.00 per person
_____ PCS Member: Saturday Evening banquet & Presentation
$ 25.00 per person
_____ PCS Non Member: Saturday Evening banquet & Presentation
$ 30.00 per person
_____ SundayMauchChunkMuseum, Jim Thorpe, Pa
$ 4.00 per person
Release: Each participant must sign
The undersigned hereby releases the Pennsylvania Canal society, its officers and agents, including third parties who furnish transportation or provide access to their land for historical sightseeing, including but not limited to The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from any and all claims, whether of personal injury or property damage, arising out of or connected in any way with the tours sponsored by the Society on April 16, 17, & 18, 2010. This release is freely executed on behalf of the undersigned and the following minors over whom he or she has guardianship.
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