1. Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad

    Railway line in the United States of America

    The Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad was built in the 1850s to transport iron ore from local mines in Lehigh and later Berks County to furnaces along the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania. Originally owned by two iron companies, the railroad later became part of the Reading Company, and parts of it remain in operation today. Wikipedia

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    The application to the Pennsylvania General Assembly for a railroad charter, around 1853, was met with fierce resistance by local farmers, who feared that trains would frighten livestock, set fires, and destroy the local farming districts. [1] The iron company was forced to compromise and charter the Catasauqua and Fogelsville Plank Road on July 2, 1853. [2]
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    Catasauqua, referred to colloquially as Catty, is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.Catasauqua's population was 6,518 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.. In 1839, Catasauqua was the location of the first manufactured ...
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    U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.[4] [5] [6] [7]Region 1: Northeast Division 1: New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New ...
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    North Catasauqua is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.The borough was founded in 1907. The population of North Catasauqua was 2,971 at the 2020 census. The borough is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
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    Catasauqua Creek was the water course along which six of the first eight successful anthracite-fueled iron smelting hot blast furnaces in North America were erected [4] for it was chosen in 1839 as a mill stream by Erskine Hazard and Josiah White, co-founders of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, along which to establish their new subsidiary: the Lehigh Crane Iron Company with imported ...
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    The Lehigh Valley is named for the Lehigh River, which flows through it.The region includes Allentown, the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania, the neighboring eastern Pennsylvania cities of Bethlehem and Easton, and its more rural suburbs.The region was once a hub for American heavy manufacturing. Its economy is now more diverse, and it has one of the state's fastest growing populations.
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    West Catasauqua is located at (40.647895, -75.481828 The villages of Hokendauqua and Fullerton are directly to the north and south of the village, respectively. The borough of Catasauqua is to the east across the Lehigh River; two bridges connect West Catasauqua to Catasauqua.The bridges are known as Pine street and Race street. The majority of the residential area is within a triangle shape ...
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    Biery's Port is the oldest section of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, which was initially settled in 1805.. In 1839, Catasauqua was the first community in the United States to launch anthracite iron manufacturing operations. The site of several of Catasauqua's first commercial and residential buildings, Biery's Port became "the commercial heart of a thriving town," according to historians at the ...
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    Catasauqua station was a Lehigh Valley Railroad station in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.It was located on the Lehigh Valley main line. Lehigh Valley service to Catasauqua began on July 4, 1855, roughly a month after the company opened its original line between Allentown and Easton, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] As was common for that era, it used a locally-constructed building. [3]
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    Northeastern Pennsylvania (N.E.P.A. or Nepa) is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton (the area's largest city), Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Hazleton, Nanticoke, and Carbondale.A portion of this region is located in the New York City metropolitan area. ...

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