Greetings canal people, I haven't seen many posts about U.S. canal people so let me see if I can make some connections with this community. Delaware and Lehigh Canal - I have paternal g-g-grandfather, George Fretz Wagner, who worked on this canal for several years beginning in about 1854. Earlier he had been a farmer, school teacher, and "practical surveyor," and Clerk of the Oprhan's Court--all in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Schulykill Canal - I have a maternal g-g-grandfather, Valentine Frey, who worked on this canal for his entire life after emigrating to U.S. with his parents in about 1833. His father Jacob and older brother George were farmers, Valentine and his younger brother Jacob were boatmen. Valentine's canal boat was the Jeremiah Lutz. In the 1890 Schuylkill County Census Directory Valentine is shown living on Dock Street in Schuylkill Haven, PA with his 2nd wife Amelia and a daughter Emaline, a milliner. Anybody interested in these 2 canals and the families who work on them? Scott Wagner in Newport News, VA USA