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Lehighton

Pennsylvania, United States

Also known as: Gnadenhütten

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Carbon county

In Carbon
Lehighton was laid out on the site of Gnadenhutten, a Moravian settlement dating from 1746 that was destroyed during the French and Indian War. Anthracite coal was discovered in the region as early as 1791, but it was not mined commercially until the early 19th…
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