Browse Items (177 total)

This watercolor appeared in an auction at Cowan's Auction. Here is the catalog description: Amerian, watercolor on paper. Depicting Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania, near present day Slatington. This view was executed the day after the following watercolor…

The Lehigh Gap dam, a wooden crib dam, on the Lehigh River south of the Blue Mountain also served at the entry point for the Walnutport stretch of the Lehigh Canal. The dam allowed for slack water navigation of canal boats from the Palmerton side of…

Photo is before the construction of the LNE railroad bridge in the gap.

1998 reprint by the Lehigh Gap Historical Society

Photo is taken from atop the western side of Lehigh Gap, looking down at the L&NE railroad bridge. The highway bridge is in the distance.