page_title: Leiper Canal
hierarchical_section_title: Leiper Canal
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic canals of Pennsylvania, including divisions of the 19th-century Pennsylvania Canal system plus navigable rivers, other canals, and four railroads that made the system more useful. Not all of the canals shown on the map existed at the same time.
context_page_description: Early in the 19th century, the Leiper Canal built in 1828-29 during the middle of the American canal age ran about 3 miles along Crum Creek in Delaware County to its mouth in Eastern Pennsylvania's Delaware Valley carrying its owner‘s quarried products to docks on the Delaware River tidewater until 1852.
context_section_description: Early in the 19th century, the Leiper Canal built in 1828-29 during the middle of the American canal age ran about 3 miles (5 km) along Crum Creek in Delaware County to its mouth in Eastern Pennsylvania's Delaware Valley carrying its owner‘s quarried products to docks on the Delaware River tidewater until 1852.
caption: Map of historic Pennsylvania canals and connecting railroads
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