Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
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This article is about the company that operated from 1822-1968. For the corporation launched in 1988, see Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company headquartered in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The company operated from 1818 until its dissolution in 1964 and played an early and influential role in the American Industrial Revolution.
The company ultimately encompassed source industries, transport, and manufacturing, making it the first vertically integrated company in the United States.[1]