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John Watson engineering notebooks
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Accession: 0171
Abstract:
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.
Dates:
1830-1832
Lehigh Coal Mine Company records
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Collection
Accession: 0131
Abstract:
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.
Dates:
1792-1829