Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company
The Beaver Meadows Railroad & Coal Company was chartered April 7, 1830, to build a railroad from the mines near Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania, beyond Broad Mountain along Beaver Creek to Penn Haven and along the Lehigh River through Mauch Chunk to the Lehigh Canal at Parryville, Pennsylvania.[1] The settlement dated to a 1787 land sale to Patrick and Mary Keene, thence to Nathan Beach.
References
- Kulp, Randolph; Scharle, John (1962). Railroads in the Lehigh Valley. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh Valley Chapter National Railway Historical Society. p. 41.
- Fred Brenckman, Official Commonwealth Historian (1884). HISTORY OF CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA (2nd (1913) ed.). J. Nungesser, Harrisburg, PA – via Archive.org e-reprint.
- Alfred Mathews & Ausin N. Hungerford (1884). The History of the Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Ancestry.com, Transcribed from the original in April 2004 by Shirley Kuntz.
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