The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company completed Coalport during the early 1870s. The original rail-to-canal transfer arrangement consisted of several separate wooden gravity piers jutting out into the basin with approach tracks crossing over the LV tracks. This layout lasted until the turn-of-century when a new, large, wooden, gravity pier was erected running laterally along the basin with east and west approach tracks (see above map). This arrangement permitted a more efficient flow of coal cars through the dumping cycle by eliminating the reverse switching moves of the old system. This enabled huge cuts of coal cars to be pushed out over the wharf and dumped in an almost continuous process. Coalport remained active until about 1922 when the LC&N's rail-canal transfer point was relocated farther downstream near their boat-building yard at Laury's Station, PA (between Treichlers and Siegfried). The LC&N wharf at Coalport was abandoned a decade later in 1932 when all canal shipments of mined coal were terminated on the Lehigh River.