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85: 1839:"Soon after this failure, Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, who were engaged in the manufacture of wire at the Falls of Schuylkill, having obtained good results in their experiments with the coal they had purchased from Cist, Miner and Robinson, secured control of the entire property of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company under the terms of a lease for 20 years. George F. A. Hanto joined them in the venture and was largely depended upon to secure the necessary financial assistance to make the property productive. Under the conditions of the lease, it was stipulated that, after a given time for preparation, they should deliver for their own benefit at least forty thousand bushels of coal annually in Philadelphia and the surrounding districts, and should pay, if demanded, one ear of corn as a yearly rental.", Brenckman, pp. 77–78 824:'s share and left White and Hazard with majority ownership; having injected most additional funding from their own pockets. In 1823 the upper four locks on the Lehigh Navigation from Lehigh Gap to Mauch Chunk were rebuilt as proof of concept test beds with a spacious bi-directional long lock system. White had offered the legislature to build a ship & steam tug capable two way lock canal system from Mauch Chunk down to Philadelphia along the Lehigh and Delaware in 1823, but was rebuffed in 1824, with the promise the state would build the Delaware Canal. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company had to build coal arks and exhausted thousands of acres of timberlands for the one-time, single use boats, costing the company dearly while the state delayed. 478:

river to the mines was unanimously voted impracticable. "To give you an idea of the country over which the road is to pass," wrote one of the commissioners, "I need only tell you that I considered it quite an easement when the wheel of my carriage struck a stump instead of a stone." The public, meanwhile, was divided. Some held that the attempt to operate the coal mine was farcical, but that the improvement of the Lehigh River was an undertaking of great value and would prove profitable to investors. Others were just as positive that improvement's to the river's navigation would follow the fate of so many similar enterprises but that a fortune was in store for those who invested in the Lehigh mines.

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stock of $ 55,000. This formed one of the most striking illustrations in American history of the dependence of a commercial venture upon methods of inland transportation. The Lehigh Navigation Company proceeded to build its dams and walls while the Lehigh Coal Company constructed the first roadway in America built on the principle, which was later adopted by the railway, of dividing the total distance by the total descent in order to determine the grade. The Lehigh Navigation Company, then suffering from an unprecedented dearth of water, adopted White's invention of sluice gates connecting with pools that could be filled with reserve water to be drawn upon as needed for navigation.

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the Lehigh and Susquehanna and the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, were leased to the Central Railroad of New Jersey for more than $ 2 million a year. The third line, the Lehigh and New England Railroad, connected to other rail links that led to New York. It served the company's Panther Valley coal mines and provided a rail link for the Lehigh Valley's many cement plants. Coupled with the 45,000 acres of property in the Poconos and 700,000 shares of stock in the National Power and Light Co., predecessor of the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., the LCN seemed invincible.

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the navigation of this stream, and in 1771 passed a law for its improvement. Subsequent laws for the same object were enacted in 1791, 1794, 1798, 1810, 1814, and 1816, and a company had been formed under one of them which expended upwards of thirty thousand dollars in clearing out channels, one of which they attempted to make through the ledges of slate about seven miles above Allentown, though they soon relinquished the work.

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triggerable artificial flood, depending upon water flow to float the boats past the rapids obstructions. It is little wonder that as he surveyed the Lehigh, he also made note where a water-powered mill could be harnessed, and the legislative act would effectively give the LNC ownership of the entire river. These rights were not released back to Pennsylvania until 1964.

1408:. Early operations without rails sent coal down once a day, needing over an hour to reach the bottom chute building dump track, and the round trip back took most of a day, even in summer. After rails were laid, mules pulling the 5 long tons (5.1 t) hopper cars back up the 9 miles (14 km) trip only took four hours, so twice a day deliveries became the rule. 650:) or together needed financial investment which the company would often join as investors, and often end up providing a later critical boost of finishing financing, investing in such ventures directly, or buying out at a later time as subsidiaries as things developed a proof of concept, track record, better promise, or dependency on another business. 1120:, the company chafed at the transport bottleneck of the Panther Creek Valley. With the increasing power of locomotives, the company surveyed and pushed a seven-mile grade up through the winding slopes north of the Nesquehoning Ridge, with several descents, connecting near Hazelton, and the wider valleys of Mahanoy Creek, including that at 542:, during the summer of the year 1818, under the personal supervision of Josiah White. The plan adopted was to contract the channel of the river in the form of a funnel, wherever it was found necessary to raise the water, throwing up the round river-stones into low walls or wing dams, thus providing a regular descending navigation. 2131:, the second continuously operating railway in North America, the first to carry passengers, the first long railway (i.e. over 5 miles), the first to carry paying passengers, the first tourism railway, acknowledged as the first roller coaster, after which The Switchback, the first amusement park roller coaster was named. 404:

loaded with one hundred barrels, or ten tons." The State kept its weather eye open in this matter, however, for a small minority felt that these men would not ruin themselves. Accordingly, the act of grant reserved to the commonwealth the right to compel the adoption of a complete system of slack-water navigation from

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with diesels and other forms of heating came into wider use, cut deeply into corporate profits. Consequently, various boards oversaw gradual contraction of the company and sales of bits and pieces. In 1966, Greenwood Stripping Co. bought the remaining coal properties, most located as originally exploited along the

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Brenckman does not say when White surveyed the mule road, but his accounts make it clear that it was instantly ready for work crews to begin when the enabling legislation was signed in March 1818—work crews were assembled and departed Philadelphia within the week—amusingly several months before legal

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Hurlbert, Chapter III, quote: Believing that coal could be obtained more cheaply from Mauch Chunk than from the mines along the Schuylkill, White, Hauto, and Hazard formed a company, entered into negotiation with the owners of the Lehigh mines, and obtained the lease of their properties for a period

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In 2000, Lehigh Coal shut down and laid-off 163 employees, saying plunging coal prices made it impossible to make a profit. The company reopened in 2001 with help of a last-resort $ 9 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 2010, in bankruptcy proceedings once again, the company was

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During the winters ending in 1821–1823, the partners learned a lot about icing damage and canal construction to prevent heavy damages by sustaining them, but also learned some damages would be sustained each winter. The need for an injection of new cash to do such repairs in 1821 lead to the company

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As operations managers of the company from 1822 until 1865, White and Hazard were constantly seeking innovative solutions to increase business and revenues. The vertical integration many economists credit them with inventing would appeal to them as a very natural way to control costs, hence maximize

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White and Hazard found a wide divergence of opinion on whether the Lehigh River could be tamed, and even fewer believed that the mining of coal from the Lehigh River's surrounding lands was feasible. On three separate occasions, funds were raised to improve the Lehigh River's functionality. By 1820,

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The mining camps were over nine miles from the Lehigh River at Mauch Chunk. Sporadically active between the years of 1792 and 1814, the Lehigh Coal Mine Company was able to sell all of the coal it could mine to fuel-hungry markets but lost many a boatload on the rough waters of the unimproved Lehigh

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When Parton joined Lehigh Navigation Coal, its parent company was rich in assets. Lehigh Coal and Navigation controlled 8,000 acres of coal lands running from Jim Thorpe to Tamaqua, 14 miles away. This comprised the entire eastern end of the southern anthracite field. Two of LCN's three railroads,

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Lower Canal completed initially in late 1820, there were several places experience in 1821 showed a need for re-engineering. In the Winter of 1821–1822, the system was severely damaged for the first time, taking the LCN's total cash reserves to repair. This situation resulted in directors White and

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By the middle of the 20th century, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, once a widely diversified company, had become largely dependent on coal revenues, while subsidiaries owned the railroads and other more-profitable arms. The softening of demand for coal, as railroads replaced steam locomotives

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Summit Hill, lying nearly a thousand feet higher than Mauch Chunk, the cars on the road made this descent by gravity, passing the coal, at their destination to the boats in the river by means of inclined planes and chutes. The whole of this plan was evolved by Josiah White, under whose direction it

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watercourse began reliably transporting large amounts of coal to White's mills and Philadelphia. The nearly 370 tons of coal brought to market that year not only salved the winter's fuel shortage but created a temporary glut. After buying out co-founder George Hauto, White and Hazard reworked their

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When the dam became full and the water ran over it long enough for the river below to regain its ordinary depth, the sluice ates were let down, while the boats, which were lying in the pool above, passed down with the artificial flood. In this manner the difficulty was overcome. Crews were sent up

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The task which Josiah White and Erskine Hazard undertook, that of making the Lehigh a navigable stream, was one which had before been several times attempted, and as often abandoned as too expensive and difficult to be successfully carried out. The Legislature was early aware of the importance of

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Another account, unattributable at this moment, details White, Hazard, and Hauto borrowing surveying tools from the Schuylkill Canal resources and spending over a month in the icy waters of the Lehigh in the winter of 1816–1817 (Including Christmas in Weissport?), which they surveyed to its source

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From that moment on, anthracite and the canals were of pivotal importance in the industrial development of the United States. Using anthracite as fuel in its production, iron for the first time became plentiful and inexpensive. For a period of thirty years, three decades that shaped the future of

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loads of coal regularly to Philadelphia by 1824. The LCMC had trouble delivering Anthracite to Philadelphia at costs cheaper than imported Bituminous Coal from Britain or Virginia. Their last expedition had been sent out in 1813 during the war & blockade caused bituminous shortages, and by the

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using wooden sleepers on a gravel substrate (as did most more modern railways) — to bring coal from mines to river more efficiently. The work went quickly since the right-of-way surveyed by White (well before 1818's charter) ran along the virtually uniform gradient created by grading the original

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It soon became apparent that the carrying out of this plan would not insure sufficient water in seasons of drought to float a loaded ark or boat, and the success of the whole enterprise hung in the balance. White resorted to the expedient of creating artificial freshets. Dams were constructed in

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Capital was subscribed by a patriotic public on condition that a committee of stockholders go over the Lehigh River ground and pass judgment on the probable success of the effort. The report was favorable so far as the improvement of the Lehigh River was concerned. But the nine-mile road from the

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In 1817, they leased the Lehigh Coal Mine's properties and took over operations, incorporating it on October 21, 1818, as the Lehigh Coal Company. They petitioned the legislature and proposed acquiring rights to make improvements to the Lehigh River for which there had been a string of supportive

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project, which began in 1814, and was finally funded and finished with the company's support. White and Hazard had backed the Schuylkill project since their mills were on the River, but became disgusted with the timid investment and management attitudes of its board, so they explored property and

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component of the system were sent down after, or as the trail car of, the coal consists, providing at least part of the spectacle to which he refers. Throughput was kept up by sending 2–3 runs per day at first, then by round-the-clock operations by lantern headlights until demand outstripped the

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The June 6, 1862 flood proved to show a fatal flaw in White's grand dream. The Upper Grand contributed to its own demise in that the dams and locks necessary to allow the coal barges to travel on the river meant that huge pools of water sat at the ready. Once the heavy June rains began, and dams

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The direct result of the examiners' report and of the public debate ultimately was the organization of the first interlocking companies in American commercial history. The Lehigh Navigation Company was formed with a capital stock of $ 150,000 and the Lehigh Coal Company was launched with capital

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The railroad first constructed in the State, and the second in the United States, was the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill, from a place of the same name on the Lehigh Canal to the coal mines of the Lehigh Company. It was brought into use in 1827. It was originally laid with a flat bar, ... (digital

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According to Brenckman's History of Carbon County, the last LCMC operation, launched in the shortages worsened by the War of 1812, built five boats and filled them, spending over a year overall. Three of the five sank before reaching safe waters, and the two remnants were purchased by White and

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On March 20, 1818, the company was granted various powers they sought to secure navigation in the Lehigh River, including with boats loaded with one hundred barrels, or ten tons on coal. Pennsylvania's state government kept an eye on the operation, however, and a minority felt the two men might

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The desired opportunity "to ruin themselves," as one member of the Legislature put it, was granted by an act passed March 20, 1818. The various powers applied for, and granted, embraced the whole range of tried and untried methods for securing "a navigation downward once in three days for boats

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In 1822, Lehigh Coal Company bought out partner George Hauto and formed the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N) by combining the Lehigh Coal Mining Company, the Lehigh Coal Company, which was leased, and the Lehigh Navigation Company. The transactions represented the first merger of

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The company built a succession of small but influential short line railways as joint ventures with other investors, each of which concurrently solved an earlier irrealizable and intractable civil construction project. Ownership and operations of all these, as well as their initial railway, the

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where they'd become disgusted with the planning, funding, and lack of commitment by other board members—their concerns take on added weight given the Schuylkill didn't operate until 1823 when the company blazed the way. White's innovative Bear Trap lock-gate and system was based on creating a

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Under the conditions of the lease, it was stipulated that, after a given time for preparation, they should deliver for their own benefit at least forty thousand bushels of coal annually in Philadelphia and the surrounding districts, and should pay, if demanded, one ear of corn as a yearly

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subsidiary, which operated both canals into the 1930s. In mid-1832 White's men had repaired the most egregiously leaking sections well enough to begin operations, and the company spun-off the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company the LNC Co., a subsidiary operating company with its own

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The following year, in 1793, the Lehigh Coal Mine Company was founded, but management proved weak and tried to operate in an absentee mode. Company personnel ambitiously attempted to trek to the mine site, dig the anthracites, and then use mules to transport bags of it to the

981:, and double-tracked connecting trackage from its foot at Ashley to the barge docks of Pittston and eventually linked up with the seven first-class railroads that drove spurs into the valley to haul anthracite. The Ashley Planes summit end connected to an assembly yard at 334:(steel cable) manufactury, the countries first it set up in Mauch Chunk. Completing the vertical integration, the wire ropes were then marketed to other mining operations, cable railways, and other industries needing high tensile reliability in managing weighty loads. 845:

The state canal was a case of blatant political corruption. Badly designed, and poorly built, with narrow 11 feet (3.4 m) that soon proved to be a serious limitation on boats using both canals, and did not even have provision for an adequate supply of water

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paperwork forming the corporation was finalized, signed and filed with the office of the Pennsylvania Secretary of State. The LCC formation took place several weeks after work crews were sent out to begin both the Navigation and the road construction projects.

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By 1819, the depth of water between Mauch Chunk and Easton was obtained. The two companies were immediately amalgamated under the title of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. By 1823, the two companies delivered over two thousand tons of coal to market.

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The company began to prepare plans and surveyed sites, and when the state legislature approved the river work in 1818, immediately hired teams of men and began to install locks, dams, and weirs, including water management gates of their own novel design.

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The Lehigh Canal became usable in 1820, was improved further between 1821 and 1824, and was finally transformed into a two-way canal between 1827 and 1829. The Lehigh Canal played a hugely influential role in the nation's ability to transport

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feasibility examinations elsewhere in 1814–1815 and petitioned to build the canal that next year. Upon their return, the company's two founders took over Lehigh Coal Mining Company's mines and mining rights in a 20-year lease. built the

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was consummated in a period of about four months. The rails were of rolled bar-iron, three-eighths of an inch in thickness and an inch and a half in width, laid upon wooden ties, which were kept in place by means of stone ballast.

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were anxious to connect their young factories with the markets of the trans-Appalachian territories being settled by tens of thousands of westward migrants. To compete with the B&O Railroad and Erie Canal, they launched the

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John J. Leisenring Jr., then Superintendent of the LCN & Co. estimated that 200 people lost their lives from White Haven down to Lehighton. The state legislature stepped in and prohibited the LCN & Co. from rebuilding.

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the two companies had a marginal level of navigability on the Lehigh over four years ahead of their targeted 1824 deadline. Coal was transported by mule track from Summit Hill to a loading chute at the huge slack water pool at

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as it came to be known in the area was spearheaded by a previous officer and stockholder: James J. Curran Jr. took over Lehigh Coal from Bethlehem Mines Corp. in 1989, and through the 1990s it remained the largest producer of

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In 1815, convinced they could much improve the reliability of its delivery, they began in 1815 to inquire after the rights to mine the LCMC's coal and hatched a plan to improve the navigation on the Lehigh as a key step.

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to step in and repair the new ditch, then, common sense injected, asked the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company to operate the venture when his fixes enabled it to open in 1834. Consequently, the company spawned the

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The loaded cars or wagons, as they were then termed, each having a capacity of approximately one and a half tons, were connected in trains of from six to fourteen, being attended by men who regulated their speed.

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was less likely to succeed. They secured additional investors by forming two companies, the Lehigh Coal Company (LCC) and the Lehigh Navigation Company, and began seeking legislative approval for improving the

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Turn-outs were provided at intervals and the empty cars were drawn back to the mines by mules. They descended with the trains in specially constructed cars, affording a novel and rather ludicrous spectacle.

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lease deal with the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, and merged it with the Lehigh Coal Company, acquiring ownership of its 10,000 acres spanning three parallel valleys in the 14 miles (23 km) from

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and railroads were directly inspired by LC&N's successes; the brothers pushing the project began searching for anthracite in 1821, months after Arks of coal had reached Philadelphia.

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation controlled 8,000 acres of coal lands running from Jim Thorpe to Tamaqua, 14 miles away. This comprised the entire eastern end of the southern anthracite field.

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The canal head end needed a location where barges could be built and timber and coal could be brought into slack water. The challenge was to do it above the gap made by the east end of

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in the U.S. It also spurred historically significant investments in raw materials and bulk transportation infrastructure projects. The company also supported funding efforts behind the

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During the summer of 1827, a railroad was built from the mines at Summit Hill to Mauch Chunk. With one or two unimportant exceptions, this was the first railroad in the United States.

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Brenckman is ignoring that at least three railroads that would become famous were formally chartered in 1826, including the second chartered and second constructed, the 3 mile

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laid down by the company in a rail corridor, or its eventual subsidiaries, still operated by the Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern, or the Norfolk-Southern Railways. The

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The navigation company began shipping significant quantities of coal by early 1819, ahead of expectations, and attained their goal of regular shipments in 1820.

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and the upper Lehigh. 19th century historians often mention the place as it was also one terminus of the TB found turnpike connecting the Lehigh Valley through

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In 1827, the Company in one massive well organized effort, completely built the 9.2 miles (14.8 km) of America's second railroad using the road bed of the

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Founders White and Hazard were at first, mill and foundry owners acting decisively to secure fuel for their main businesses prior to 1815's application for

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and made or supported means to other novel solutions of transport problems; and created transport corridors still important today.It also pioneered the

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Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's success, along with White's reputation for advancing the state of mining and civil engineering, jump started the

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began construction before 1830 alongside the Baltimore & Ohio. By 1827 the SH&MCRR had carried passengers and was charging passengers in 1829

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where it had loading docks with a meeting of transport technologies feeding a new extension of its Lehigh Canal through the difficult terrain of the

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legislation going back decades. In 1820, White and Hazard bought out their partner Hauto and dissolved the Lehigh Coal Company on April 21, 1820.

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1826 saw several important rail transport companies obtain incorporation, charters, or both, but only the first chartered in Pennsylvania, the

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to develop the waterpower sites along its waterways into early industrial parks. By 1840, the Abbott Street area near Lock 47, now part of

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the valley, anthracite fueled furnaces throughout the Lehigh Valley produced greater quantities of iron than any other part of the nation.

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Within the next two years, White and Hazard constructed a descending navigation system that used their unique "bear trap" or hydrostatic

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White and Hazard very shortly found themselves on the receiving end of investor criticisms that the improvements and mining operation at

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was founded. It was incorporated the following year, in 1793, and the company also acquired 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) in and around

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With a unified legislative and executive push, the company spun off a subsidiary to build a railroad connection to the Susquehanna at

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subsidiary company suffered attrition and abandonment. Conrail kept some parallel trackage and tore up other redundant stretches.

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Thirty minutes was the average time consumed in making the descent, while the weary trip back to the mines required three hours.

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were failing and were both considered crackpot schemes. The majority opinion was that improvements were possible, but that

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near the outlet of Panther Creek. From Tamaqua, tracks also reached along the Schuylkill Valley to feed the industries of

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To move the coal to market, they entered political negotiations to acquire rights to tame the turbulent and rapids-ridden

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Riding this success, the two companies were merged into the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, which resolved to apply

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navigability had failed. Delivering ever increasing tonnages of coal from 1818, and by providing the new high tech fuel,

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began to be breached, devastating tidal waves of flood water burst dam after dam causing a great flood and loss of life.

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Having displayed great technological skills by creating the world's first iron wire suspension bridge, which spanned the

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legislation and optioning the sad-sack LCMC operations. In 1814, the partners had actually invested first in the rival

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The company name remained associated with anthracite mining through the independently founded and otherwise unrelated

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and had its hands in many other northeastern Pennsylvania shortline railroads, spurs, and subsidiaries; created the

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at their wire works, White and Hazard schemed with other industrialists to secure a reliable source of anthracite.

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succeed. The state reserved the right to compel the adoption of a complete system of slack-water navigation from

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technology, including canals, locks, and rails to bring coal to their foundries and the stoves and furnaces of

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just north of Wilkes-Barre over very rough terrain. The multi-modal project used a cable railroad called the

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were sent down river, three sank, leaving the directors of LCMC disgusted and unwilling to fund more losses.

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profitability. The two, and the various members of the corporate board often heard of ideas that separately(

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Bringing affordable steel processes and then making the first wire rope factory, justify the conclusion.

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This article is about the company that operated from 1822-1968. For the corporation launched in 1988, see

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allowed the company to stop leasing rights to the CNJ and transfer them instead to the new acquisition.

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The state rejected this idea also, and in 1827 to build a canal along the Delaware River as part of the

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The company ultimately encompassed source industries, transport, and manufacturing, making it the first

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was extended upriver another 39 miles (63 km) through the Upper Lehigh Canal and then through the

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as the "Old Company", as distinct from the later 1988–2010 company, which was very similarly named the

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In 1932, the Lehigh Navigation was closed after maintenance expenses surpassed operating revenues.

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reprint garbles figure. Brenckman lists a 'rolled' 1-1/2 inch flat iron bar, 3/8ths inches thick.)

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So once 'emergency' improvements on the canal used its founder's knowledge and experience on the

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inspired by the company's success backed by other Philadelphia businessmen and the granite road.

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It was nine miles in length, and occupied the route of the old wagon road most of the distance.

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in the United States, acquiring virtually the entire eastern lobe of the Southern Pennsylvania

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to serve customers seeking a steady supply of fuel for foundries and mills on the falls of the

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Hazard seeking additional capital funds leading to the dissolution of the LCC and LNC and the

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purchased by one of its bigger creditors at auction, BET Associates, who were affiliated with

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River, contributing to lost operating profits for the company and sometimes outright losses.

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and then shooting the Lehigh River's rapids, hoping to reach the river's confluence with the

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Heydinger, Earl J. (1964). "Railroads of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company: GROUP IX".

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Heydinger, Earl J. (1964). "Railroads of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company: GROUP IX".

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was a short rail line road built by Josiah White from a ravine in the Nesquehoning Valley

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name at the company gates along Rt-209 were observed in operation during mid-July 2013.

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interlocking companies in the nation's history. Five years later, the company built the

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was a landmark achievement, succeeding where a weary list of attempts to improve the

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Lausanne Township, and Tavern/Inn was a small pre-1800s settlement near the mouth of

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John P. Miller, 1979. The Lehigh Canal: A Thumb Nail History, 1829–1931. The Author.

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reorganization into the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, which also bought out

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had been one huge problem retarding acceptance of Anthracite as a fuel alternative.

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was a mining and transportation company headquartered in Mauch Chunk, now known as

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and completed in 1843, giving it the largest carrying capacity of any U.S. canal.

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Brenckman. "Progress of Settlements and Internal Improvements in Carbon County".

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The History of the Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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with the ouster of George Hauto, but was not rechartered officially until 1822.

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capability of keeping up. By then with the 1846 experience of engineering the

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to the canal's loading chute over 200 feet (61 m) above the canal banks,

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In 1986, shareholders dissolved the company after it sold its last business,

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if the service given by the company did not meet "the wants of the country."

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EX-EXECUTIVE RECALLS DECLINE AND FALL OF LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION CO.

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The lower terminal railyard thus ended in what is today the housing in

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inspired the development and connection of four other regional canals.

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The Paths of Inland Commerce, A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway

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and some of the trackage along the Lehigh River once belonging to the

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Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; 1864. pp. 330–.

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Per paid guide presentation in July 2013 at the Lansford-Coaldale

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Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's corporate headquarters in

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National Canal Museum – The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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According to a history of the navigations, authored in 1884:

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Bartholomew, Ann M.; Metz, Lance E.; Kneis, Michael (1989).

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The improvement of the Lehigh was begun at the mouth of the

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for navigation. By 1817–18, they had organized the separate

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to create steel, which the company then provided to its own

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to improve the mule trails down from the coal deposits at

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Fred Brenckman, The History of Carbon County Pennsylvania

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In 1818, building on two predecessor companies, founders

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to its north. Both towns are built into the flanks, the

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Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 1986

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and the L&SRR were extended upriver through the

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of 20 years at an annual rental of one ear of corn.

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