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Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Populated places established in 1875Townships in Carbon County, PennsylvaniaTownships in PennsylvaniaUse mdy dates from July 2023
Lehigh River near Glen Onoko, near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Lehigh River near Glen Onoko, near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Lehigh Township is a township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 479 at the time of the 2010 census.

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Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
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18255 Lehigh Township
Pennsylvania, United States
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Lehigh River near Glen Onoko, near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Lehigh River near Glen Onoko, near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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Lehigh Gorge Trail
Lehigh Gorge Trail

The Lehigh Gorge Trail is a 26-mile (42 km) multi-use rail trail that winds along the valley of the Lehigh River Gorge from White Haven, to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Much of the trail runs through the Lehigh Gorge State Park, and was originally developed into a railroad corridor after an extension of the Lehigh Canal was first built under the great push of Main Line of Public Works to connect the Delaware Valley to Pittsburgh. Dating to 1837, the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company and its subsidiary Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (LH&S RR) worked to tame the rough terrains of the gorge, initially for a northward extension of the Lehigh Canal, then for a railroad graded through passing the twists of the gorge after floods in the later-1840s wiped out the northward extension of the much older (lower) Lehigh Canal, extending down to the industries of Allentown and Philadelphia. LH&S became a holding company in the 1870s and to this day lease the trackage of this important rail corridor to several rail companies with track rights, including Norfolk Southern and the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad. Parts of the trail are rights of ways of the competing Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR), incorporated in the 1870s to bust the monopoly the LH&S had over transit between the Delaware Valley and Wilkes-Barre. Both rail systems were acquired during the Conrail mergers, with parts combined for today's Railbed. The trail is located on the unused remnants, and today is part of the 165-mile (266 km) D & L Trail, which extends northwards along the other abandoned trackage beyond Mountain Top down into the Avoca and Moosic suburbs between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.