Section 4 Guard lock 4 to Treichlers

 

Dam 4, created the slack water pool necessary to provide water to the forth section of the Lehigh Canal. Dam #4 was a high wood and stone crib dam with a height of 11 feet. A concrete topping was added at a much later date. The dam was breached in 1983 when an ice dam above the Walnutport bridge was blasted and it tore a hole in the dam on it's way downstream.

 

Guardlock #4 is at the upper end of Section 4 immediately adjacent to the dam. Looking through the lock from a spot near where the upper gates would have been.

 

Looking through guardlock #4 from the lower end. Lock lift was only 1.0 feet. The guardlock was badly damaged by the flood of 1941. Rocks and rubble block the upper end of the lock.

 

Towpath wall showing a slot for the lower gate.

 

Guard lock #4 from the berm side wall looking at the towpath wall and the control house.

 

Another view of the control house. The control house was located between the guardlock and the dam and controlled the flow of water into this section of the canal.

 

This photograph shows some of the control house mechanism that was used to control the flow of water.

 

Another view of the control house. This photograph is from the canal looking across to the control house.

 

Back away from guard lock #4 is the original locktender house. It has been modernized and serves as a private residence.

A stream enters the canal below the guard lock and has washed out the towpath and the canal at some time in the past. The canal begins again a short distance downstream. However, because of the breach, this section of the canal is no longer watered and there have been no efforts to restore any portion of it.

 

A short distance below guard lock #4 there is the remains of a canal dredge sitting within the canal bed.

 

Another view of the canal dredge in the Lehigh Canal below guard lock #4.

 

The next photograph is of Treichler's Cafe which was formerly the 'Hotel at Treichlers'. The mouseover image is of the 'Hotel at Treichlers' at the turn of the century.

For a before and after effect of the 'Hotel at Treichlers', place the cusor over the above image (mouseover). Click on this image to view the turn of the century 'Hotel at Treichlers' enlarged.

The 'Hotel at Treichlers' is located just above the river and canal. The road that goes past the hotel leads to an agricultural mill. The mill is still operating. Lock #28 of the Lehigh canal is at the bottom of the hill just past the agricultural mill.

 

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