Bald Eagle Cross Cut Canal

Bald Eagle Cross Cut Canal. . , The Bald Eagle Cross Cut Canal , The Bald Eagle Cross Cut Canal was built between 1828 and 1834, and ran from Lock Haven to Bellefonte. The canal was created to improve inland navigation. The locks that were a part of the canal eventually led to the names Lock Haven and Lockport. Lumber, brick, and coal were shipped by raft down these canals throughout the 1800s which increased economic growth for the area., On the north side of the river, in Lockport, sits the lock house, constructed for the West Branch and Susquehanna Canal Company in 1833. This was Lock 34 of the canal, and it functioned as a tide lock, regulating the flow of water from the river into the canal. The locks were opened and water first flowed through in late summer of 1834., This section of the Bald Eagle Cross Cut Canal was built by Irish and German immigrants, and ran from the Susquehanna River to the canal basins near Mill Hall. When it was originally built, the canal lock was further north and closer to the river than it is today. In the early 1990s when the levee was built for flood protection, the lock was moved south. Each stone was numbered and recorded, and then a portion of it was moved and reassembled in present-day Canal Park., [Photo captions, clockwise from left center, read] , . The lock house on the north side of the river in Lockport. , . The main background photo on this panel shows the canal lock gate near the mouth of the Susquehanna River facing north. , . Lock gate at the mouth of the river facing north toward Lockport. , . The Bald Eagle Cross Cut Canal Map - The map above shows the layout for the canal near the entrance to the river. The lower portion is the Lock Haven side of the river. , . Lock gate near Bald Eagle Creek.