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Union Canal Lock 26 TB Hotel Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/5/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Located along the Swatara Creek Water Trail, the cache is located near Lock 26. You will get wet getting to this cache. How wet is up to you. The rating due to possible water conditions during heavy rains or snow thaw and elevation change to the water. Please take precautions and do not attempt this cache during high water. Be careful of muggles passing by enjoying the area. For more information on the trail go to http://www.fish.state.pa.us/watertrails/swatara/trailguide.htm

The Union Canal was a towpath canal that existed in southeastern Pennsylvania during the 19th century. First proposed in 1690 by William Penn as an early public works project to connect Philadelphia with the Susquehanna River. 70 years later, surveyors David Rittenhouse and William Smith began work to find a suitable route for the canal. They finished the task in 1770, eight years after they started. This made the canal the first to be surveyed in the Americas. Although construction began in 1792 during the George Washington Administration, financial difficulties delayed its completion until 1828. Called the "Golden Link," it provided a critical early transportation route for the shipment of anthracite coal and lumber eastward to Philadelphia. Although closed in the 1880s, remnants of the canal remain.

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