Schuylkill Canal is the common but technically inaccurate name for the Schuylkill Navigation a 19th-century commercial waterway in and along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The canal was actually a system of interconnected canals and slack-water pools in the river which is called a navigation. The Schuylkill Navigation System opened in 1825 to provide transportation and water power.
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