Canal to Pittsburgh: A documentary history of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works (1826-1864)

For twenty-three years, 1834-1857, the State of Pennsylvania operated a transportation system, called the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works, that ran across the state, 395 miles, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. This book, by Dr. William C. Dzombak (1921-2015), tells the history of that part of the Pennsylvania Main Line canal known as the Western Division: the canal from Johnstown to Pittsburgh.  

The book was completed in 2011 but not published prior to Dr. Dzombak's death in 2015.  Dr. Dzombak was a Professor of Chemistry at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, from 1953-1986.  He is also the author of the book  "Salt in the Conemaugh Valley: The Importance of the Conemaugh Salt Works in the Early American Salt Industry (1800-1860)," available at the CMU Libraries, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and other libraries in Southwestern Pennsylania, and from the Saltsburg Historical Society, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.