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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22KQ_from-waterways-to-highways_Easton-PA.html
"The Lehigh Valley was one of the great transportation hubs of America, possessing 10 major wagon roads, 3 important canals and ultimately 8 important railroads." Alfred Chandler, historian From this unique point along the trail, you can see the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22K8_anthracite-tidewater-canals_Easton-PA.html
"Throughout the season of business, & this year [1832] is but the beginning of a navigation by Canal to tide; their business is expected to increase several fold, & so the employment for Hands." Josiah White, co-founder Lehigh [Coal and] Navigat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22JU_easton-nearby-heritage-attractions_Easton-PA.html
Easton is situated at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers. Founded in the early 1750s, it became an important river community and transportation junction. Opened by 1834, the Lehigh, Morris, and Delaware Canal systems carried anthraci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22JQ_making-tracks_Easton-PA.html
"It will give some idea of the magnitude of the business done at Easton (a place the existence of which was hardly known in New York until recently) to state there are, within three miles, a total of 49 large factories, and other smaller factories…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22IT_its-a-short-commute_Easton-PA.html
"The boatsmen had a hard life. But the locktenders did too, because they couldn't go nowhere. They had to be on the job all the time." Harvey Brant Locktender It is early morning and still dark. Nestled in bed, six sleeping children nearby, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22IS_canal-boats_Easton-PA.html
"I remember one day, my dad grabbed both the driver and captain and threw them in the canal. My dog Buster, got one of the captains by the seat of the pants and really tore his pants off. He got his wife to steer while he went in the cabin to get …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22IP_date-plate_Easton-PA.html
In 1882, the Lehigh Valley Railroad replaced its original South Easton repair shops with a large, multi-building facility. The site included a forty stall roundhouse that was 300 feet in diameter and a locomotive building shop, which burned down i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22IO_liberty-trust-company-bell_Easton-PA.html
This bell was cast in 1922 by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore, and hung in the tower of Liberty Trust Company, 830 Hamilton St. Allentown. The bank was founded in 1919, and the façade of the building was altered to evoke Independence Hall t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22IN_veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Easton-PA.html
These honored symbols of our country, state and city presented to the Hugh Moore Parkway in solemn memory of our departed comrades by Lt. E. C. Baker Post 1290 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Easton, Pennsylvania May 30, 1971
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22IG_the-canalers-life_Easton-PA.html
"One thing, you were never bothered with insomnia. You rose about 3:30 a.m. and you wouldn't retire until 11:00 p.m.." Joseph A. Lum Mule driver Imagine working 18 hours a day, six days a week! Canalers stopped only when the Lehigh Coal and Nav…
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