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unusual facts about Mauch Chunk-Bear Mountain Gap



Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad

Centered in the right bank town of Mauch Chunk the LH&S finally moved with alacrity to connect both its halves.

Pisgah Mountain

At the Mauch Chunk-Bear Mountain Gap east of Jim Thorpe, the range ends rapidly descending to the Lehigh River Valley below the northeastern summit marked on USGS topological maps as Mt. Pisgah, which is named for the biblical mountain in Jordan from which Moses first saw the promised land (as are many Mountains around the world and especially in the United States).


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