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The small ridge in front of you was once a towpath on the Schuylkill Canal System, with a shallow canal running along its opposite side and floating barges from Philadelphia north to Fort Clinton, a distance of 108 miles. Mules labored along this towpath, pulling the heavy barges at nearly 4 miles per hour. The canal encouraged westward expansion from Philadelphia for both agriculture and coal mining.
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