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Stoney Run Aqueduct
Historic Site
The Stoney Run Aqueduct on the Delaware Canal near Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, was one of the small but essential masonry aqueducts that carried the canal prism over its many feeder streams as the waterway paralleled the Delaware River. Built in the early 1830s as part of the original construction of the 60‑mile Delaware Division Canal, the aqueduct allowed boats to pass uninterrupted above Stoney Run, a modest tributary that otherwise would have required a culvert or dip in the canal bed. Like the canal’s other minor aqueducts, it was constructed of locally quarried stone and timber, engineered to withstand seasonal floods and ice while maintaining a steady water level for coal‑laden boats traveling between Easton and Bristol. Though far smaller and less celebrated than the great Roebling aqueducts on the Delaware & Hudson Canal, the Stoney Run structure played a quiet but vital role in keeping the Delaware Canal functioning as a continuous, reliable transportation corridor through the 19th century.
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Delaware Canal State Park
36 Jerico Road
Washington Crossing PA 18977
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