Founding of Durham Philip Ginder Josiah White and An open cut coal pit White’s bear trap lock The Lehigh Coal and The Lehigh Canal, a The Abbott Street 1727 Furnace in Bucks 1791 discovers anthracite 1818 Erskine Hazard form 1819 known as “The Old 1820 system allows coal 1827 Navigation Company 1829 two-way navigational 1832 area of Easton be- County. The furnace produced pig coal on Sharp Mountain in Carbon the Lehigh Coal Company and the Mine” - in the Summit Hill area - arks to navigate the Lehigh River opens the Gravity Railroad, link- system owned by the Lehigh Coal comes first industrial park in the and bar iron and during the Ameri- County, later called Summit Hill. Lehigh Navigation Company and was started by White and Hazard. and enter the Delaware River at ing coal mines at Summit Hill to the and Navigation Company, opens United States, using water power can Revolution cannons, ballshot, Ginder’s discovery became folk gain navigational rights on the This mine was located in the area Easton. The one-way system lasted Lehigh River at Mauch Chunk. The between Mauch Chunk and Easton, from the Lehigh Canal. By 1840, and other military equipment for legend that was carried down Lehigh River from the Common- of the “Mammoth Vein,” the most until 1826; construction of the Le- gravity railway lasted 100 years as a distance of 46 miles. The canal over 1,000 men were employed at George Washington’s army. through story and song. wealth of Pennsylvania. important coal deposit of the day. high Canal began in 1827. a carrier of coal and tourists. was completed in two years. 12 industrial sites.