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Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, also known as the Roebling Bridge, is the oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States. [1] It runs 535 feet (163 meters) over the Delaware River , from Minisink Ford, New York , to Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania .
Pike National Forest is the western portion of Cheyenne Mountain and much of the rest of the Pikes Peak mountainous area. Colorado Springs is 70 miles south of Denver, which has the largest population of any city in Colorado. Colorado Springs has the largest area of any city in the state, with 194.87 square miles (504.7 km 2) in 2013. [6]
The site includes and protects Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct and the Zane Grey Museum. [1] Within the park are the remains of the Delaware and Hudson Canal. This canal operated from 1828 to 1898 carrying anthracite coal and other regional products to the Hudson River where the products were shipped to various markets including New York City. The ...
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Lackawaxen Township, Pennsylvania; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Municipio de Lackawaxen
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 81.2 square miles (210 km 2), of which 78.4 square miles (203 km 2) is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2) (3.45%) is water. A scenic area within the Upper Delaware River National Park, Lackawaxen is located about a two-hour drive from New York City.
It flows south from Mount Deception through Pikeview and Monument, and into Colorado Springs, where it meets up with Fountain Creek. [1] It is 27.2 miles (43.8 km) from its northernmost boundary with National Forest Lands to its confluence with Fountain Creek [2] near the intersection of Interstate 25 and U.S. Route 24. [3]
The land beneath one federally managed aqueduct known as the Friant-Kern Canal, which moves water from the Fresno area toward Bakersfield, has sunk about 13 feet since its completion about 70 ...
John A. Roebling in 1866 or 1867. John A. Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, founded his steel wire manufacturing company on the site in 1849.The location, on the western side of the Chambersburg, now a neighborhood of Trenton, was chosen for its location alongside the Delaware and Raritan Canal, since buried underneath Route 129.