Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/02/2019

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00:01:28 1 History
00:04:30 2 Development
00:05:27 2.1 Lehigh Coal Mine Company
00:06:58 2.2 Lehigh Coal Company
00:10:25 2.3 Lehigh Navigation Company
00:14:48 2.4 Lehigh Coal &amp; Navigation Company
00:15:47 3 Non-mining Ventures
00:16:40 3.1 Blast Furnaces
00:17:17 3.2 Grand Lehigh Canal-Upper Canal Division
00:18:05 3.3 Railroads
00:18:42 3.3.1 Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad
00:21:18 3.3.2 Room Run Railroad
00:21:35 3.4 Non-railroad Companies
00:24:29 3.4.1 Mill Parks
00:26:05 3.4.2 Blast Furnaces
00:26:24 3.4.3 Wire Rope Manufactury
00:26:43 3.4.4 Upper Lehigh Canal
00:27:20 3.4.5 Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
00:28:33 3.4.6 Other LC&amp;N railroads
00:31:03 3.4.7 Lehigh and New England Railroad
00:31:16 3.5 Decline
00:32:19 3.6 The new company
00:33:46 4 See also



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This article is about the company that operated from 1822-1967. For the corporation launched in 1988, see Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.

The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company that operated in Pennsylvania from 1818 (1820 & 1822) to 1964.  It ultimately encompassed source industries, transport, and manufacturing, making it the first vertically integrated company in the United States.Building on two predecessor companies incorporated in 1818, founders Erskine Hazard and Josiah White entered the coal industry to serve customers seeking a steady supply of fuel for foundries and mills on the falls of the Schuylkill River. Their LC&N spearheaded the Industrial Revolution in the United States, accelerating regional industrial development by taking on civil engineering challenges thought impossible and creating important transport and mining infrastructure. Most importantly, the LC&N established the Lower Lehigh Canal (begun 1818, usable 1820, improved 1821-24, and made two-way in 1827-29) and taught America to burn anthracite. By the early 1830s, the Lehigh Canal and its "bridging" river trip along the Delaware River inspired and connected four other canals.