Hazard, Erskine, 1789-1865
Dates
- Existence: 1789 - 1865
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Watson engineering notebooks
John Watson (1774-1864), a Quaker, worked as a land surveyor in Pennsylvania during the early nineteenth century. The collection consists of five volumes relating to the construction of the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal.
Lehigh Coal Mine Company records
Lehigh Coal Mine Company was an unincorporated joint-stock company, established in 1792, with the intention of developing a deposit of anthracite coal discovered by Jacob Weiss (1750-1839) and others at what is now Summit Hill in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of documents relating to land ownership and governance of Lehigh Coal Mine Company.
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- Subject
- Anthracite coal industry 1
- Canals 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Delaware Canal (Pa.) 1
- Field notes 1
- Joint-stock companies 1
- Land companies 1
- Land speculation 1
- Land surveys 1
- New Jersey 1
- Pennsylvania 1 ∧ less
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