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Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) by : John H. Drury
Download or read book Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) written by John H. Drury and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe tells the story of not only the athlete but its famed coal-mining industry. What was originally named Mauch Chunk, 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 46 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 only 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. 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.
Download or read book Mauch Chunk/Jim Thorpe written by Drury and published by . This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) by : John H. Drury
Download or read book Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) written by John H. Drury and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mauch Chunk, 1850 by : Carbon County Tourist Promotion Agency
Download or read book Mauch Chunk, 1850 written by Carbon County Tourist Promotion Agency and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe, Formerly, Mauch Chunk by : Hans G. Egli
Download or read book Jim Thorpe, Formerly, Mauch Chunk written by Hans G. Egli and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide/history, Jim Thorpe, Formerly Mauch Chunk by : Hans G. Egli
Download or read book Guide/history, Jim Thorpe, Formerly Mauch Chunk written by Hans G. Egli and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century by : John H. Drury
Download or read book Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century written by John H. Drury and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here by : Richard Benyo
Download or read book Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here written by Richard Benyo and published by University of Scranton Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Thorp never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American Indian Olympic champion and in 1954 they legally changed their name to permanently commemorate his burial. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here, a treasury of tales from a 1950s boyhood in a town surrounded by the mountains of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, is a passport to a lost land of childhood adventure, featuring an ancient river, old mine shafts, canal locks, hobos camps, the remains of millionaires' mansions--and the hilarious antics of Richard Benyo and his buddies in the South Street Gang. This memoir brings the 1950s alive--just as The Little Rascals did for the Depression--with its renderings of afternoons spent with baseball cards, cardboard forts, BB guns, playground bullying. and that first illicit sip of beer. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here is a memorable, nostalgic account of all the trials, tribulations, and the rites of passage of growing up in post-war America.
Book Synopsis Native American Son by : Kate Buford
Download or read book Native American Son written by Kate Buford and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles defining moments in the career of the preeminent American athlete, from his contributions to college football and gold-medal wins at the 1912 Olympics to his role in shaping professional football and baseball, in a portrait that also discusses his private struggles and political views.
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Book Synopsis Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered by : Updyke, Rosemary K.
Download or read book Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered written by Updyke, Rosemary K. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
Book Synopsis A Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania by :
Download or read book A Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jim Thorpe written by Robert W. Wheeler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-02-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1888 in what would soon be Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams—Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him “the world’s greatest athlete.” Between 1913 and 1919, Thorpe played professional baseball for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. In 1915 he began playing professional football with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs. When the top teams were organized into the American Professional Football Association in 1920, Thorpe was named the first president of the organization, renamed the National Football League in 1922. Throughout his career he excelled in every sport he played, earning King Gustav’s accolade many times over.
Download or read book Summit Hill written by Lee Mantz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While walking along the top of Sharp Mountain in 1791, Philip Ginder kicked up a piece of black stone that turned out to be anthracite coal. This discovery paved the way for a million-dollar coal industry that thrived for more than a century and spawned the birth of Summit Hill. In early 1827, a nine-mile stretch of the Switchback Gravity Railroad was built for the purpose of hauling coal from Summit Hill to the Lehigh River in Mauch Chunk. By the end of the century, the Switchback was the number two tourist attraction in America, second only to Niagara Falls. Many of the early buildings are no longer standing, but thanks to postcards and photographers of the time, many images of Summit Hill's lost places have been preserved.
Book Synopsis International Stratigraphic Guide by : Amos Salvador
Download or read book International Stratigraphic Guide written by Amos Salvador and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis RAUCH'S PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH HAND-BOOK by : E. H. RAUCH
Download or read book RAUCH'S PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH HAND-BOOK written by E. H. RAUCH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Lehigh Valley Railroad by : Robert F. Archer
Download or read book The History of the Lehigh Valley Railroad written by Robert F. Archer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
