Through these connections to other divisions of the Pennsylvania Canal, it formed part of a multi-state water transportation system including the Main Line of Public Works.
[4] It linked the West Branch Canal to a privately financed addition, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation, that extended the canal system another 22 miles (35 km) to Bellefonte along Bald Eagle and Spring creeks.
[4] Beginning in 1837, large quantities of pig iron and bituminous coal traveled to distant markets via these canals.
34 on the Lockport (West Branch Canal) side, about 2,000 feet (610 m) downriver from the Jay Street Bridge.
[4] Remnants of the canal exist along the West Branch Susquehanna River between Northumberland and Lock Haven.