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  • Thumbnail for Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
    Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company headquartered in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania...
    55 KB (7,675 words) - 10:18, 15 May 2024
  • Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal...
    71 KB (8,969 words) - 01:05, 19 April 2024
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    people as of the 2010 census. The Coal Region is bordered by Berks, Lehigh, and Northampton Counties (including the Lehigh Valley) to its south; Columbia...
    17 KB (1,733 words) - 20:12, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania
    with a documented discovery near Summit Hill and the founding of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1792 to periodically send expeditions to the wilderness...
    25 KB (3,355 words) - 02:12, 11 May 2024
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    forks". Both Lehigh County and Lehigh Valley are named for the river. Between 1821 and 1966, the Lehigh River was owned by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation...
    12 KB (940 words) - 05:05, 26 December 2023
  • The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (LCAN) (1988–2010) was a modern-day anthracite coal mining company headquartered in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. It...
    8 KB (819 words) - 11:33, 23 March 2024
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    Lehigh is a city in Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. Its population was 356 at the 2010 census. Lehigh began as the first mining camp in what is...
    14 KB (1,016 words) - 23:53, 26 December 2023
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    which allowed anthracite coal and other goods to be transported further up the U.S. East Coast. At its height, the Lehigh Canal was 72 miles (116 km)...
    30 KB (3,577 words) - 22:25, 28 February 2024
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    States, which was used by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company to transport coal from Summit Hill downhill to the Lehigh canal. The railway operated on...
    15 KB (1,481 words) - 03:27, 30 January 2024
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    Carbon County, Pennsylvania (category Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania)
    Pisgah Mountain discovered a black tone coal outcropping, and conveyed a chunk of it to Weissport. Lehigh Coal Mine Company (LCMC) operations had managed...
    34 KB (2,524 words) - 22:32, 26 April 2024
  • Lake Erie Lehigh Canal (1818) a privately funded canal Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (1818-1986) builders of the Lehigh Canal Lehigh Coal and Navigation...
    2 KB (278 words) - 21:09, 19 March 2024
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    Josiah White (category American businesspeople in the coal industry)
    partners of the Lehigh Coal Company, the Lehigh Navigation Company, Ashley Planes, the Lehigh Canal, Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, Lehigh Coal & Navigation...
    17 KB (2,082 words) - 00:41, 1 May 2024
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    on the Lehigh River and acquiring the mining rights of the failing Lehigh Coal Mine Company and other investors to fund the projects. The Lehigh and Schuylkill...
    38 KB (4,198 words) - 16:35, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division)
    the canal to the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in 1858. The Delaware Canal took over the easy part of the journey for the coal barges transiting...
    17 KB (1,958 words) - 21:26, 10 February 2024
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    venture capital was raised for coal and coal transportation projects after 1823 and into the early 1840s, once Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company had blazed...
    49 KB (5,291 words) - 13:20, 27 May 2024
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    500°W / 40.700; -75.500 The Lehigh Valley (/ˈliːhaɪ/) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties...
    108 KB (9,395 words) - 11:10, 7 May 2024
  • markets. Two good examples of this were funded by private enterprise: The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company used vertically integrated mining raw materials...
    35 KB (4,526 words) - 19:53, 12 May 2024
  • present-day Jim Thorpe but with overall better success than in Wales. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N) and their two founders, Josiah White and...
    22 KB (3,003 words) - 08:59, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lehigh Gorge State Park
    Glen Onoko in Lehigh Township in Carbon County. The history of Lehigh Gorge State Park is tied into the development of anthracite coal mining, which was...
    28 KB (3,438 words) - 03:25, 27 November 2023
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    Lehigh Coal Company and the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Following White's plan, the latter company improved down river navigation on the Lehigh...
    33 KB (3,364 words) - 13:18, 7 January 2024
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