Download or read book Historical Sketch and Views of Mauch Chunk written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mauch Chunk Switchback written by Vince Hydro and published by Center for Canal History &. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk written by John H. Drury and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe tells the story of not only the athlete but its famed coal-mining industry. What was originally named Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company and built an efficient transportation system that moved coal nine miles over the mountains to Mauch Chunk by Switchback Gravity Railroad, and 46 miles along the Lehigh Canal to Easton. With the arrival of the railroads, the Switchback became a major tourist attraction. As rail excursionists descended on Mauch Chunk to experience a hair-raising ride on America's first roller coaster and enjoy the magnificent scenery, the coal shipping town, billed by the railroads as "the Switzerland of America," became a tourist destination second in popularity only to Niagara Falls. In a story stranger than fiction, the town exchanged its name for the name of Jim Thorpe when the 1912 Olympic hero was laid to rest there in 1954. Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) tells the story of the athlete and his burial, the Switchback Gravity Railroad, the Lehigh Canal, the social scene, and the town's Victorian legacy.

Download or read book Mauch Chunk Glen Onoko Switchback Railroad Souvenir Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Souvenir Book of the Mauch Chunk Glen Onoko Switchback R.R. with 32 small photos.

Download or read book Mauch Chunk History Series America s First Roller Coaster written by Vince Hydro and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old Switchback Railroad written by Harry David Lentz and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk written by John H. Drury and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe, was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company and built an efficient transportation system that moved coal nine miles over the mountains to Mauch Chunk by Switchback Gravity Railroad, and forty-six miles along the Lehigh Canal to Easton. With the arrival of the railroads, the Switchback became a major tourist attraction. As rail excursionists descended on Mauch Chunk to experience a hair-raising ride on America's first roller coaster and enjoy the magnificent scenery, the coal shipping town, billed by the railroads as "the Switzerland of America," became a tourist destination second in popularity to Niagara Falls. In a story stranger than fiction, the town exchanged its name for the name of Jim Thorpe when the 1912 Olympic hero was laid to rest there in 1954. Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) tells the story of the athlete and his burial, the Switchback Gravity Railroad, the Lehigh Canal, the social scene, and the town's Victorian legacy.

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Download or read book The Incredible Scream Machine written by Robert Cartmell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson’s switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen’s use of psychology in designing one.

Download or read book Summit Hill written by Lee Mantz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While walking along the top of Sharp Mountain in 1791, Philip Ginder kicked up a piece of black stone that turned out to be anthracite coal. This discovery paved the way for a million-dollar coal industry that thrived for more than a century and spawned the birth of Summit Hill. In early 1827, a nine-mile stretch of the Switchback Gravity Railroad was built for the purpose of hauling coal from Summit Hill to the Lehigh River in Mauch Chunk. By the end of the century, the Switchback was the number two tourist attraction in America, second only to Niagara Falls. Many of the early buildings are no longer standing, but thanks to postcards and photographers of the time, many images of Summit Hill's lost places have been preserved.

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Download or read book Grand Summer Excursion written by and published by . This book was released on 1885* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "24 Collotypes of photographs of the trip. No printing company is credited but other Eddy books used W.P. Allen, Gardner, Massachusetts. This book contains an identical photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge that was printed as a mezzotype by A.G. Bushnel [CAI NE2698 B979n; formerly D.A.H. Cat. 1883:8]"--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 81.