A late 19th Century view of Mauch Chunk, aka Jim Thorpe, situated on the west bank of the Lehigh River in Carbon County, USA. Mauch Chunk was founded in the fall of 1818 when the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, headed by Josiah White, began extensive work to make the Lehigh River navigable for the transport of anthracite coal mined in Summit Hill, a small “patch town” eight miles west of Mauch Chunk. They completed a series of bear trap dams between Mauch Chunk and Easton and began transporting coal on large wooden arks down the rough-and-tumble Lehigh.
"Century Geographical Readers"
Size: 3067px × 4665px
Location: Mauch Chunk and Mount Pisgah, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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