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After Josiah White and Erskine Hazard built the canal from Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) to Easton, they worked to provide coal transport from White Haven on down to the harbor of Mauch Chunk. This was done by way of damming the Lehigh River, then creating gargantuan
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| A residence as was part of the once remote outpost along the CentralJersey mainline heading west. For more in-depth look at the Penn Haven Junction and Planes, click here. |
locks that dwarfed the height of the Lower Lehigh Canal.
These foundations can be seen just north of Penn Haven Junction on the Lehigh Gorge. According to one Central Jersey map, these walls were once part of a residence here at this lonely spot. was the foundation of a large ice house or cold storage or perhaps it was a residence. I found old solid copper wire that could have been telegraphic wire or clothes hanging wire to the rear.
In this view, up the hill now, looking down at the remains, looking toward the east, you can see the Lehigh River in the distance, at the bottom of the east side of the Lehigh Gorge. (White water can be seen in the swollen Lehigh River past the pine on the bottom left.)
It is a mystical place, with the greenest of green moss I’ve seen.
