Canal Cleaners at work!

In conjunction with the 40^th Anniversary of Earth Day, Friends of the

Delaware Canal coordinated their annual “Adopt the Canal” project to clean-up the historic canal on April 17.  Joining in the project were volunteers from the First Savings’ Riegelsville Branch Office including employees, some family members, friends and even a customer that got ‘down and dirty’ to help clean-up the canal. The volunteers from First Savings worked from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon and collected about 10 bags of garbage, tires, and a variety of ‘interesting’ odds and ends. Their clean-up route was more than a mile long from the canal bridge near the Riegelsville Inn to Lock 21 at the intersection of Route 611 & Route 212. 

The Delaware and Lehigh Canal runs 60 miles from Bristol in Bucks County, to Easton in Northampton County.  Construction on the Delaware Canal began in 1827, and was completed in 1831. However, the Canal was not put into operation until 1834. Most of the work was done by local farmers and Irish immigrants. At that time, there were no power tools or heavy earth-moving equipment, so the Delaware Canal was dug by hand!

 You can become a member of the Friends of the Delaware Canal by following this link, or you can download a membership form and mail it, completed and accompanied by your dues payment, to FODC, 145 S. Main Street, New Hope, PA 18938.  More information is available at www.fodc.org.

 Join us in thanking all the volunteers for their much appreciated labor at the canal!