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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. Softcover

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