Images of America - Summit Hill - B952 QuickBooks A Biography by Edward Pinkowski

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Images of America - Summit Hill - B952 QuickBooks A Biography by Edward PinkowskiWhile walking along the top of Sharp Mountain in 1791, Philip Ginder kicked up a piece of black stone that turned out to be anthracite coal. This discovery paved the way for a million dollar coal industry that thrived for more than a century and spawned the birth of Summit Hill. In early 1827, a nine mile stretch of the Switchback Gravity Railroad was built for the purpose of hauling coal from Summit Hill to the Lehigh River in Mauch Chunk. By the end