Engineering drawings, 1826-1929 [microform].

Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Canal Dept.

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The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a major anthracite mining and transporting firm in eastern Pennsylvania between 1822 and 1954. From the description of Engineering drawings, 1826-1929 [microform]. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122459373 ...

Leisenring, John, 1819-1884

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Mauch Chunk Railroad.

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Chapman, Isaac A.

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Panther Creek Valley Water Company.

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Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.

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Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company

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The Beaver Meadow Railroad & Coal Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on April 7, 1830. It purchased a tract of anthracite coal land in Northampton (now Carbon) County, and between 1834 and 1836 it constructed a twenty-six mile railroad from these mines to the Lehigh Canal at Parryville. In the late 1830s, the road was to be a link in a through route from New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and Erie being promoted by Nicholas and Edward R. Biddle. The flood of 1841 de...