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  2. Summit Hill, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Summit Hill is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.The population was 3,034 at the 2010 census. [3]Summit Hill was the western terminus of the United States' second operational railway, the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.

  3. Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway - Wikipedia

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    Josiah White and Erskine Hazard-founding partners of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad Pisgah Mountain and the topography of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad. The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, also known as the Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad and occasionally shortened to Mauch Chunk Railway, was a coal-hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that was built in 1827 and ...

  4. Carbon County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. [2] The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] The county borders Lehigh and Northampton counties in the state's Lehigh Valley region to its south, Monroe County to its east, Luzerne County to its north ...

  5. History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The owners of this company were absentee managers who were reliant on teams of workers sent under a foreman to fell timber to build so called 'arks' (high-sided punts), then mine coal around nine miles in present-day Summit Hill, Pennsylvania from the right bank of the Lehigh River terminus at Mauch Chunk), then trek with mule loads to fill the ...

  6. Summit Hill High School - Wikipedia

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    1911. Architectural style. Renaissance. NRHP reference No. 01000138 [1] Added to NRHP. February 16, 2001. Summit Hill High School was an American high school that was located in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the commonwealth's Lehigh Valley region. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

  7. 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 ...

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