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Postcard: "View of Otter Creek, Bristol, Pa."
Addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Hartzell, Salfordville, Montg. Co. Pa." Stamped Bristol, May 18, 1908. -
Postcard: "A 2798 Silver Brook Bridge, Bristol, Pa."
Inscription on front reads: "A fine trip up river. Have had lunch and now going to take trolley to Club for supper. Mildred."
Back of postcard reads: "Miss B. Anderson, 3331 Powelton Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." Stamped Bristol, September 4. -
Postcard: "[Senator] Grundy's Park, Bristol, PA."
Delaware Canal Lagoon Park in Bristol next to the Grundy Mill.
Inscription on back of postcard reads: "Dear Daddy, I'm out in Newportville, Buck [sic] Co., Pa. at Helen's home. Gee, it's beautiful out here. Your lovely letter was rec'vd yesterday. Love, Mary." Addressed to "Mr. James S. Brennan, 424 Locust Ave., Centralia, Penna." Stamped Newportville July 16, 1930. -
[Unidentified woman posing on bridge over the Delaware Canal at Beaver Street ("Forge Bridge")]
Concrete bridge built in 1929 to replace 1827 wooden bridge over the Delaware Canal at Beaver Street. Known as the Forge Bridge, it was removed in 1960 when the canal was filled with soil. Photograph says house in the background belonged to a sea-captain. -
[Top: Canal Lock #3, looking north, Bottom: Lock #2 looking south]
Top: Lock #3, looking north towards the site of the Warren Snyder Elementary School (circa the time of the school’s construction). In the distance, on the right, is Leedom’s Carpet Mill water tower and in the far distance (center) is the Grundy Mill clock tower and power house smoke stack.
Bottom: Canal Lock # 2 looking south toward Mill Street Bridge. This was in 1956 when the abandoned canal was being filled in. Photographs courtesy of Ed Levy. -
[Tillie Van Aken, President of Bristol Cultural and Historical Foundation at the “Reflective Mule” statue which was part of a county-wide collection]
This mule was purchased/sponsored by B.C.H.F. after being on display, it was given to the Canal Works on Beaver and Canal Street to be added to their display. -
[This is the canal that was dug from Bristol to Easton (60 miles) starting in 1831]
The canal closed to barges October 1931. This image is after the canal was no longer in use. -
[South gate of Delaware Canal Lock #4 and lock keeper's house [Cochran House] that was located approximately behind the current Grundy Tower building (as of 2019)]
Note sheds for mules that held approximately 40 mules. A large fire around 1920 destroyed the mule sheds. Approximately 20 mules and one baby were found in remnants of fire. -
[Sigafoos’ Lock or Lock #1, the first lock after the river inlet gate, part of the Delaware Canal]
The overflow goes into the canal basin. Lock is hidden by trees to right of overflow.
From Martha Capwell-Fox, National Canal Museum: "This is hard to figure, because almost certainly the whole set of waterways through Bristol changed a lot.... It seems likely that the overflow was past the lock, and I would say the lock was right alongside the locktender's house, and just not visible in the photo. On the other hand, the blueprint map, which is hard to date but is most likely a version from the 1930s, shows an overflow BEFORE the lock, dumping from the Canal Basin into the marsh.” -
[Scene is at the foot of Pond Street--Forest Theatre in rear]
Written on back of photograph: "Cameraman on the trail is Jack Wright, Druggist. Mr. Nichol took the picture. That was when Mr. Nichol first came to Bristol and opened his Kodak Business in Wrights Drug Store. The two boys on the wall are Peter Parker on the left, Brud Highland on the right." -
[Photograph taken from the Mill Street Bridge over the Delaware Canal looking North]
The second lock beyond the tidal lock at the Delaware River is pictured. The lock keeper's house is on the left (red). To the right, across a field is Market Street perpendicular to the canal. In the distance on the right is Leedom’s Mill water tower, and the smokestack and clock tower of the Grundy Mill. -
[Photograph of wooden bridge under construction at Delaware Canal Lagoon Park]
This wooden bridge replaced the original cement bridge that fell into disrepair. Part of the lagoon restoration project during 1996-1997. -
[Photograph of wooden bridge under construction at Delaware Canal Lagoon Park]
This wooden bridge replaced the original cement bridge that fell into disrepair. Part of the lagoon restoration project during 1996-1997. -
[Part of the Delaware Canal Lagoon Park after its restoration in 1996-1997]
Park decorated for Easter. -
[Overflow falls from the canal located just north of Lock # 1]
This was located behind the theater building originally called the Forrest Theater and later The Grand Theater. The water flowed past the old sewage plant into the Otter Creek Marsh area. -
[Otter Creek Marsh, a rare example of a freshwater tidal wetland]
This preserve has a number of rare plants and home for a variety of fish, animals, and birds. Preservation of the marsh was started in the 1980s. It is located adjacent to the Mill Street parking lot, which had formerly served as the Canal Basin for the Delaware Canal. -
[One of the bridges that crossed the Delaware Canal, which operated between 1830 and 1931]
This exact bridge is not identified.
[According to local historians judging the landscape, this bridge was likely in southern Bucks County at the lower end of the canal.]