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Summit Hill, Pennsylvania
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Summit Hill is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 3,034 at the 2010 census.
Hazard Street in Summit Hill, July 2013
Hazard Street in Summit Hill, July 2013
Summit Hill High School, July 2013
Summit Hill High School, July 2013
PA 902 eastbound in Summit Hill
PA 902 eastbound in Summit Hill
Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway
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The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, also known as the Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad and occasionally shortened to Mauch Chunk Railway, was a coal-hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that was built in 1827 and operated until 1932. It was the second gravity railway constructed in the United States, which was used by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company to transport coal from Summit Hill downhill to the Lehigh canal.
An aerial view of the Lehigh Canal in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, c. 1870
An aerial view of the Lehigh Canal in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, c. 1870
Josiah White and Erskine Hazard-founding partners of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad
Josiah White and Erskine Hazard-founding partners of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad
Pisgah Mountain and the topography of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad
Pisgah Mountain and the topography of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad
An 1832 portrait of the terminus of the Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill Railroad and the coal loading chutes below by Karl Bodmer
An 1832 portrait of the terminus of the Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill Railroad and the coal loading chutes below by Karl Bodmer