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  2. Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania's first railroad and first anthracite carrier opened on Saturday, May 5th, 1827, when seven cars of coal passed from the Summit Hill mines of the L.C.&N. Company to their canal at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, descending 936 feet (285 m) in the nine-mile (14 km) trip. [3] —

  3. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1792, the Lehigh Coal Mine Company (LCMC) was founded. [3] It was incorporated the following year, in 1793, and the company also acquired 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) [3] in and around Panther Creek Valley and Pisgah Mountain, [3] and the aim of hauling anthracite coal from the large deposits on Pisgah Mountain near what is now Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia via mule train to arks ...

  4. Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company - Wikipedia

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    The earlier company, called "the Old Company" [1] had owned and operated an extensive system of coal mines in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties, two canals, the Lehigh Canal and the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, the historic Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill Railway, Ashley Planes, and the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (L&S).

  5. Mauch Chunk Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippian Mauch Chunk Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.It is named for the township of Mauch Chunk, now known as borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania and for nearby Mauch Chunk Ridge where the formation crops out.

  6. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original ...

  7. Film Review: ‘Mine 9’ - AOL

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    A modestly budgeted, cannily made survival drama centered on a fictional coal mine explosion in Appalachia, "Mine 9" plays a little like a humble blueprint for a more extravagant Hollywood ...

  8. LeBron James' production company working on new History ... - AOL

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    A tour guide talks about the painting of Jim Thorpe on the fourth floor at the Oklahoma Capitol Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Native filmmaker Chris Eyre to direct Jim Thorpe documentary.

  9. Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company - Wikipedia

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    The Beaver Meadow Railroad & Coal Company (BMRC) was chartered April 7, 1830, to build a railroad from the mines near Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania, beyond Broad Mountain along Beaver Creek to Penn Haven and along the Lehigh River through present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania to the Lehigh Canal at Parryville, Pennsylvania. [1]