USA: Codorus Navigation Company, one share, York 1843, banknote format, GEF
£50.00
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USA: Codorus Navigation Company, one share, York 1843, banknote format, GEF.
The company was formed in 1829 to make a navigable waterway along Codorus Creek from York, Pennsylvania to Susquehanna River, a distance of 11 miles (18 km) to include 13 locks.
The first 3 miles (4.8 km) of the system were finished in 1832, allowing boats named Codorus and Pioneer to run passenger excursions between York and Barnitz’s Springs.
Plans originally included a second canal from the mouth of Codorus Creek along the Susquehanna to calm water above Chestnut Ripples. This would have made entrance into the Codorus system easier for craft coming down the river, but the extension canal, though started, was never finished. Competition from the York and Maryland Railroad, put the Codorus canal out of business by about 1850.
