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This was a pretty complex operation as evidenced by all the supporting buildings.

Looking north through the upper Main Street business district.

Looking toward the southeast.

This is looking north, towards Blue Mountain, on First Street. The streets went from first to seventh (east to west) in the upper part of the town.

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…

Although school buildings existed in the borough before construction of this large high school in 1897, the size and scale of this building clearly shows the wealth of the town in the 1890s. When a new high school building was erected just down the…

View of Lehigh Gap from the north side of the gap looking south, through the gap. The canal's aqueduct over Aquashicola Creek in visible.

The Lehigh canal is to the right, the dam on the river is to the left and in the distance you can see the chain bridge across the river.