Lehigh Canal
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The Lehigh Canal is a navigable canal that begins at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek on the Lehigh River in the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern regions of Pennsylvania. It was built in two sections ove
The Lehigh Canal in Glendon, Pennsylvania in 1979
The February 1873 edition of Harper's Weekly featuring an illustration of anthracite coal loading at the loading chutes in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania; Hauto Tunnel was in operation, and the LC&N Co. allowed its subsidiary Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad to be sold as a tourist railroad. As the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, it was the world's first roller coaster.
Main Street Bridge over the canal in Freemansburg in July 2015
Weigh lock with scales to determine tolls in 1873
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.