Mauch Chunk, PA

Headnote
Mauch Chunk, Pa., Carbon co. Township and village. In the midst of the Schuylkill coal fields. The surface is mountainous, the soil gravel. The village is on the W. bank of the Lehigh River, at the head of the Lehigh Canal, in a deep and romantic ravine, between rocky mountains, which rise precipitously 800 or 1000 feet. An inclined plane and railroad 9 miles long extend to the coal mines. (Gazetteer of the United States of America, 1854)
Place Unit Type
City or Town
Containing Unit
Carbon County, PA

Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Mauch Chunk, Pa., Carbon co. Township and village. In the midst of the Schuylkill coal fields. The surface is mountainous, the soil gravel. The village is on the W. bank of the Lehigh River, at the head of the Lehigh Canal, in a deep and romantic ravine, between rocky mountains, which rise precipitously 800 or 1000 feet. An inclined plane and railroad 9 miles long extend to the coal mines.
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America.... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 449.
Date Type
In Pennsylvania coal country, five drown when a rail passenger car falls into the Lehigh River Crime/Disasters
Residents in 1860
Name Type
Mauch Chunk Cemetery, Mauch Chunk, PA Location or Site
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