1833 - 1840 The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. New Castle Frenchtown Railroad Map

Description

This listing is for the following bound annual report booklets as well as other texts - If you have any questions please let me know. This is a bit complicated to describe but it is several years of reports with what I think are two extra volumes toward the end - they do not seem to be a part of the regular reports but I may be wrong.
Book Titles - Annual Report of The Board of Managers of The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company To The Stockholders  1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840
A History Of The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Published By Order Of The Board Of Managers
Acts of incorporation of the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company passed by the legislatures of Maryland and Delaware : also, the articles of union between the Turnpike and Railroad Companies
Book Author  -various
Book Publisher / Year - 1834, 1835. 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839 Philadelphia Pennsylvania Printed By James Kay, Jun & Co Race above Fourth Street and 122 Chestnut Street // 1840. 1841 Philadelphia Printed By William S. Young 88 North Sixth Street
Book Condition and Content - Following is a list of the report years as well as two other books that are bound with them all - overall the pages are clean but there is occasional wear or margin foxing etc.. and a faint dampstain at upper center margin that comes and goes - nothing severe and it all appears fairly sharp. Refer to each year or volume for condition issues. Everything was bound in marbled and leather boards. Each year I have below is for the year being reported on and published date would be the following year - so if it says 1833 this means it is the report published 1834.
1833 - 11 pages - this report looks like all edges were trimmed.
1834 - 12 pages - light smudge lower left last page blank
1835 - 16 pages - lower margin of page 14 has faint pencil notes
1836 - 16 pages - some faint dampstaining starting at title page and getting fainter as it goes
1837 - 27 pages - majority of pages are tanned - crease to center
1838 - 60 pages
1839 - 48 pages - a few spots of foxing to far side margin
(at this point there are the following volumes with the 1840 report in-between)
A History Of The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Published By Order Of The Board Of Managers - Philadelphia Printed By William S. Young No. 88 North Sixth Street - 1840 - 68 pages - before book begins there is a fold out map -
A Map of the Lehigh Navigation above Mauch Chunk and of the Rail-Road from White Haven to the Susquehanna, showing those portions of the 3 great Anthracite of Penn, and of an extensive lumber district which are mainly depending on the works of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company for an outlet to the markets of Philadelphia & New York lithograph by T. Sinclair No. 79 S Third St Phila - map has 3+ inch closed tear to far right edge and some light creases and folds along far left margin.
Map shows as far North as Wilkes-Barre and beyond a bit and goes a little further South than Lehighton and Weissport - you can just see Berwick to the West and to the East Stoddartsville.
1840 - 19 pages - some foxing but light
Acts of incorporation of the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company passed by the legislatures of Maryland and Delaware : also, the articles of union between the Turnpike and Railroad Companies -- Publishes by Philadelphia : John C. Clark, 1837. 40 pages - some light foxing to title page and the previously mentioned faint dampstain at very top margin gutter top.
About the company - The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company was a mining and transportation company that operated in Pennsylvania from 1818 (1820 & 1822) to 1964. It ultimately encompassed source industries, transport, and manufacturing, making it the first vertically integrated company in the United States.
Building on two predecessor companies incorporated in 1818, founders Erskine Hazard and Josiah White entered the coal industry to serve customers seeking a steady supply of fuel for foundries and mills on the falls of the Schuylkill River. Their LC&N spearheaded the Industrial Revolution in the United States, accelerating regional industrial development by taking on civil engineering challenges thought impossible and creating important transport and mining infrastructure. Most importantly, the LC&N established the Lower Lehigh Canal (begun 1818, usable 1820, improved 1821–24, and made two-way in 1827-29) and taught America to burn anthracite. By the early 1830s, the Lehigh Canal and its "bridging" river trip along the Delaware River inspired and connected four other canals.
The New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road (NC&F) was opened in 1831, was the first railroad in Delaware and one of the first in the United States. About half of the route was abandoned in 1859; the rest became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) route into the Delmarva Peninsula and is still used by Norfolk Southern Railway. The abandoned segment from Porter, Delaware, to Frenchtown, Maryland, the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad Right-of-Way, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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