Talk:Schuylkill Canal

Plans

I've been working on the whole system of Pennsylvania canals, of which the Schuylkill Canal was an important part. I created a Pennsylvania Canal page a couple of days ago; it has a complete list of the public and private canals in the state. My long-range goal is to write articles for each of the missing pieces. Some of the bigger pieces such as the Main Line of Public Works and the Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division) and this article about the Schuylkill Canal were already done by others, and I've done a couple of the missing bigger pieces like the Beaver and Erie Canal and one little piece, the Leiper Canal. The remaining pieces are mostly small, but they are intended to complete the larger picture. I'm being careful to cite sources for any data that I include in these articles. Please add more details if you have reliable sources. Finetooth 20:22, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

See my notes below in the next section. Cheers Risk Engineer (talk) 18:01, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Sources

The Schuylkill Canal article as I found it was completely unsourced except for the National Register citation. I'd like to add citations for the material I have sources for, but my main source, The Amazing Pennsylvania Canals, by William H. Shank, doesn't agree in every detail with what's already in the article. For example, my source says that the tunnel at Auburn was completed in 1821, whereas the existing article says 1824. If I use my source, I have to change the date to 1821. Does anyone interested in this page object if I make this and similar changes if I back them up with sources? Alternatively, can you provide sources for the existing data? Not every sentence of every article needs to be sourced, but quantities, dates, and facts that might reasonably be questioned or doubted should be sourced to some reliable entity. Most of the data in the 1821 or 1824 paragraph is supported by Shank, and I could cite him once for the whole paragraph if I make a few minor changes. Any thoughts? Objections? Counter-proposals? Finetooth 20:22, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I found a second source for the 1821 date, so will be changing it shortly. Also created the Auburn Tunnel article. --J Clear (talk) 15:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

If someone is interested in working on the article, there is whole chapter on the canal in Black Rock. --J Clear (talk) 22:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I have been working on other canal articles in this same time period- 1790-1830. See the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company and more recently the Union canal. Both companies had been chartered to build a canal on the Schuylkill river. There were four companies competing to build canals on the Schuylkill river in the 1810 timeframe, one of which was the Schuylkill Navigation Company which is popularly known as the Schuylkill canal, the subject of this article. I would propose the following: (1) move the current article to the new title "Schuylkill Navigation Company" which was the formal name of the company with a redirect at Schuylkill canal with the intro material. (2) Rework the article to discuss the predecessor companies that had competing rights to build the canal. I propose to start that editing process in the December 15th timeframe. Cheers Risk Engineer (talk) 18:00, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Category Transportation in Pennsylvania?

The Schuylkill Canal is the only Pennsylvania canal in Category:Transportation in Pennsylvania. All the others are shown geographically as in particular counties. See, for example, Lehigh Canal, with Category:Transportation in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Category:Transportation in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Category:Transportation in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Should this article be changed to particular county categories, rather than Transportation in Pennsylvania? --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:32, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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