Lehigh Crane Iron Company.

The Lehigh Crane Iron Company was one of the first companies to succeed in smelting iron with anthracite coal on a commercial scale.

The Lehigh Crane Iron Company was chartered on January 10, 1839, under the laws of Pennsylvania. Sponsors were the founders of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, and several of their associates. The LC&N had been experimenting with anthracite smelting since 1823, at first directly and later by offering subsidies of coal and water power to others. None of these American experiments had yet achieved success, when the LC&N managers learned of the successful use of the hot blast at George Crane's Yniscedwyn Iron Works in South Wales.

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