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Union Canal

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At Union Deposit, five miles south, can be seen remains of the Union Canal. It connected the Susquehanna at Middletown with the Schuylkill at Reading. Suggested by William Penn, the canal was surveyed in 1762. Completed in 1828; abandoned in 1885.
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