Description
Within the National Heritage Corridor there are more than 100,000 acres (400 km2) of public lands for outdoor recreation, including numerous state, county and local parks.
The Corridor includes hundreds of historical sites related to a variety of subjects including:
- social development of young America (Leni Lenape settlements)
- the anthracite coal mining era (the Molly Maguires labor movement)
- the Industrial Revolution (Bethlehem Steel)
- the development of systematic canals (the Lehigh Navigation, Lehigh and Delaware Canals)
- the development of rail transportation (Lehigh Valley Railroad)
- the evolution of natural conservation (John J. Audubon and Bucks County conservation movement)
It also contains sites that can be interpreted to represent the transforming principles that became the foundation of the American Constitution — religious freedom, mutual responsibility between government and the people, and equality.
In 1988, the U.S. Congress designated the Corridor as nationally significant, in recognition of its nine National Historic Landmarks, six National Recreation Trails, two National Natural Landmarks and hundreds of sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Read more about this topic: Delaware And Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
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