Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company
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The Beaver Meadows Railroad & Coal Company was chartered April 7, 1830, to build a railroad from the mines near Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania, beyond Broad Mountain along Beaver Creek to the Lehigh Canal along the shore opposite Mauch Chunk to Palmerston on the Lehigh River and then along the river to Parryville, Pennsylvania. The settlement dated to a 1787 land sale to Patrick and Mary Keene, thence to Nathan Beach.
References
- Fred Brenckman, Official Commonwealth Historian (1884). HISTORY OF CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA (2nd (1913) ed.). J. Nungesser, Harrisburg, PA – via Archive.org e-reprint.
- Alfred Mathews & Ausin N. Hungerford (1884). The History of the Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Ancestry.com, Transcribed from the original in April 2004 by Shirley Kuntz.
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- Standard gauge railways in the United States
- 1864 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
- Railway companies disestablished in 1864
- 1830 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Railway companies established in 1830
- Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
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- Predecessors of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
- American companies established in 1830
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