LebTown
(Provided photo)
When Matt and Meghan Reynolds bought land near the Lickdale trailhead of the Swatara Creek, they didn’t know it contained a piece of local history.
The land encompasses the remains of a small segment of the Old Union Canal, a towpath canal that ran through some 82 miles of southeastern Pennsylvania and was a vital commercial link in the 19th century.
“The segment, which we believe is Lock 11, is pretty obvious,” Matt Reynolds said in an email to LebTown.
Advertisement
“Some of it is buried and some of it is visible,” he said. “It has weathered over the years and is slowly becoming part of the landscape of the forest, so we don’t exactly know what it looked like back then, but there is clear evidence of a man-made structure with aligned and stacked rocks of all sizes.”