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Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
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This article is about the company that operated from 1822-1968. For the corporation launched in 1988, see Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company headquartered in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The company operated from 1818 until its dissolution in 1964 and played an early and influential role in the American Industrial Revolution.
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The company ultimately encompassed source industries, transport, and manufacturing, making it the first vertically integrated company in the United States.[1]