The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry  (PA)  (Images of America)
Publisher: Arcadia  Publishing; Arcadia
Published: February 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780738538556
Subjects: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; Industries - Manufacturing Industries; Pennsylvania - Local History; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Economic History; History / United States / General; PA; Cement industries; Lehigh River Valley; Pennsylvania; Portland cement industry
First sentence: The construction of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's canal from Easton to Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in the 1820s triggered the first cement making in the Lehigh Valley.