The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is a collection of people, places, and events that helped shape the nation's history across five Pennsylvania counties. Its one hundred sixty-five-mile trail follows canal towpaths and former railroad beds between Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County and Bristol in Bucks County, linking small canal towns and large industrial cities shaped by centuries of lumbering, mining, canals, railroads, and steel working. The region includes the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers, outdoor recreation, museums, and festivals, and it preserves nationally significant historic and natural resources through partnerships at the federal, state, and local levels and through the involvement of residents and businesses. Its broader legacy includes immigrant hardship and opportunity, anthracite coal that fueled America's industrial revolution, canal and farm labor by mules, Moravian commercial and craft activity, historic landmarks, protected vistas, and sites associated with a turning point in the nation's history along the Delaware River in Bucks County on Christmas Day, seventeen seventy-six.
