Beaverdam Run' is a short creek draining the east slopes of the
Mahoning Hills Mahoning may refer to:
Communities
* Mahoning, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Portage County
* Mahoning County, Ohio
* Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
* Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
* Mahoning Township, L ...
, and a right bank tributary of the
Lehigh River
The Lehigh River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania. The river flows in a generally southward pat ...
. The creek's banks are one of the two most likely valleys that
pack animal
A pack animal, also known as a sumpter animal or beast of burden, is an individual or type of working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weight bears on the animal's back, in contrast to draft anim ...
s traversed to reach boats on the river so the
Anthracite
Anthracite, also known as hard coal, and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the hig ...
from the earliest
coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
activity in
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. The county is also part of Pennsylvania's Coal Region and Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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was transshipped onto boats on the river.
References
Tributaries of the Lehigh River
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