Guide History Jim Thorpe Formerly Mauch Chunk
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Guide History Jim Thorpe Formerly Mauch Chunk
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Author : Hans G. Egli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Guide History Jim Thorpe Formerly Mauch Chunk written by Hans G. Egli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Jim Thorpe (Pa.) categories.
Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk
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Author : John H. Drury
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk written by John H. Drury and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
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.
Jim Thorpe In The 20th Century
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Author : Joan Sewell Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 2005-10
Jim Thorpe In The 20th Century written by Joan Sewell Gilbert and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with History categories.
Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community's decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk ("Bear Mountain") to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town's economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk's days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, unable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Downand-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.
Mauch Chunk Jim Thorpe
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Author : Drury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-12
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Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania
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Author : Donna J. Carney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania written by Donna J. Carney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Architecture categories.
The Past Is A Foreign Country
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Author : David Lowenthal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-11-14
The Past Is A Foreign Country written by David Lowenthal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-11-14 with History categories.
Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Telling The Stories
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Author : Ronald Bruce Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Telling The Stories written by Ronald Bruce Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Electronic government information categories.
Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography
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Author : John B. B. Trussell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography written by John B. B. Trussell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Pennsylvania categories.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1979
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Copyright categories.
Pennsylvania History
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices.".