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LVGap1968.jpg
A Lehigh Valley freight heads south on the Jersey Central tracks in the fall of 1968. In the background, you can see the old Lehigh and New England bridge being dismantled.

LVRiver.jpg
View looking north from the Slatington-Walnutport bridge, towards Lehigh Gap.

MainStreetBridge.jpg
View looking up Main Street across the old Trout Creek bridge. The newspaper building is visible to the right; the Baptist church in the center of the photo; the high school building has not yet been built.

Berksie.jpg
This was a Reading gas electric car (#4067) that ran from the Slatington depot on the Lehgh Valley's branch line out to Emerald, and then continued on the Reading Line out past Best station. The train at one time brought students in to school in the…

LehihgBridge.jpg
The wooden bridge between Slatington and Walnutport

FiremanFountain.jpg
Fireman's fountain that stands in the bend of Main Street, used to be in front of the Presbyterian Church, which is now the Mountain View Apartments). Pierce house in the background.

CitizensBank.jpg
Pictured here with the time and temperature sign on the corner of Second and Main Streets (the lower bank).

GapHighwayBridge.jpg
This steel bridge replaced the old Chain Bridge on the Slatington-Palmerton Road.
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