America's portland cement industry began in the Lehigh Valley. The rich deposit of limestone known as the Jacksonburg Formation arcs through the valley from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Warren County, New Jersey, and today it still provides the raw material for the Lehigh district's famous high-quality portland cement. Cement from the Lehigh Valley built America's skyscrapers, dams, and highways. The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry documents not only the quarries and cement mills but also the dozens of companies that sprang up to supply and support the industry. The photographs also tell the stories of the people who formed the cement communities--the entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, and immigrants whose legacies live on in the five multinational companies still making cement in the valley.
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Carol M. Front, coauthor of Allentown, is an industrial photographer and author. Joan Minton Christopher is a writer and works in television production. Martha Capwell Fox, author of Catasauqua and North Catasauqua and Whitehall and Coplay, is a freelance writer and editor. All three authors share an avid interest in local and industrial history.
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The construction of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's canal from Easton to Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in the 1820s triggered the first cement making in the Lehigh Valley. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lehigh Portland, Martins Creek, Universal Atlas, Lehigh County, Dick Schwechten, Lehigh Valley, Kathleen Unger, Lone Star, Alpha Portland, Lehigh District, National Canal Museum, New Jersey, United States, Bradley Pulverizer Company, East Fogelsville, Whitehall Portland, Atlas White, Bath Museum, Lehigh Cement Company, Roy Lehr, Smidth Company New!
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The construction of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's canal from Easton to Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) in the 1820s triggered the first cement making in the Lehigh Valley. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lehigh Portland, Martins Creek, Universal Atlas, Lehigh County, Dick Schwechten, Lehigh Valley, Kathleen Unger, Lone Star, Alpha Portland, Lehigh District, National Canal Museum, New Jersey, United States, Bradley Pulverizer Company, East Fogelsville, Whitehall Portland, Atlas White, Bath Museum, Lehigh Cement Company, Roy Lehr, Smidth Company New!
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