Delaware and Hudson Canal
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The Delaware and Hudson Canal was the first venture of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, which would later build the Delaware and Hudson Railway. Between 1828 and 1899, the canal's barges carried anthracite coal from the mines of northeastern Pennsylvania to the Hudson River and thence to market in New York City.
A remaining section of the canal in Sullivan County, NY, used as a linear park
Anthracite coal
Barges awaiting coal loads in the basin at Honesdale
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company building as seen in 1876. It was on the southeast corner of Cortlandt and Church Streets in Manhattan. The building was commonly called "The Coal and Iron Exchange".
Coal Region
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The Coal Region is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is known for being home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated reserve of seven billion short tons.
The corporate headquarters of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in Mauch Chunk in present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania in the Coal Region. The company, which helped spearhead the U.S. industrial revolution, was founded in 1822 and dissolved in 1986.
A Welsh miner in a coal mine in Pennsylvania's Coal Region in 1910