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Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)  (PA) (Images of America)
Jim Thorpe - Mauch Chunk - PA - Images of America
Author: Jr. and John H. Drury, Joan Gilbert
Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe, was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company and built an efficient transportation system t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780738509631
ISBN-10: 0738509639
Publication Date: 9/2/2001
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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