Erskine Hazard
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Erskine Hazard and his partner Josiah White were industrialists who developed infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeastern United States, which proved influential in usherin
A 19th century illustration of Hazard and Josiah White, his partner
Hazard assessed what was necessary to make the Lehigh River navigable, at least temporarily enough to float coal barges past obstacles and the constant grade road bed, which descended about 1,100 feet (340 m) in 9 miles (14 km) from Summit Hill to the coal chute designed by White to load barges in present-day Jim Thorpe.
Josiah White
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Josiah White was a Pennsylvania industrialist and key figure in the American Industrial Revolution.
Erskine Hazard
…Erskine Hazard (November 30, 1789 – February 26, 1865) and his partner Josiah White were industrialists who developed infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeastern United States, which proved influential in…
A 19th century illustration of White