BEERS’
ATLAS
GUIDE TO THE Property owners
OF
East Mauch Chunk began life as a suburb of
Mauch Chunk. The east side of the
Lehigh opposite Mauch Chunk became inhabited shortly after the founding of
Mauch Chunk in 1818. Directly opposite
downtown Mauch Chunk was the Lock No. 1 of the Lower Grand Division of the
Lehigh Canal, and about a quarter mile below that was Lock No. 2, which was the
weigh lock. Those employed by the canal
and the attendant industries that grew up around it were the first permanent
“East Chunkers”.
Shortly
after, the place known as “the Kettle” came into being. This was about a half mile above Lock No. 1,
lying in the ravine where the Kettle Run (also known as Ruddle’s Run) emptied
into the Lehigh. This was also along
the route of the Beaver Meadow Railroad, which preceded the Lehigh Valley
Railroad on the east bank of the Lehigh.
In later years, a series of wharves was built here, allowing coal from
the railroad to be loaded on canal boats for shipment to market. This loading area was known as “Lousy Bay”.
About
1850 the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. began clearing land and laying out
streets on the plateau overlooking “the Kettle”, which is where the main part
of East Mauch Chunk now lies. It grew
quickly and by 1855 became Carbon County’s 2nd incorporated
borough.
A
planned community and company town, the streets were laid out in a neat grid
style. Streets running parallel to the
Lehigh River were the numbered streets; those running perpendicular were Pine, Lehigh,
North, Center and South Streets.
The
following listing includes the owner of the property (not necessarily the
person living there), address and the side of the street the property was
situated on, as well as the block the property was located on. Properties were residences, unless
otherwise noted.
Click here to go to the 1875 Beers Atlas
map of East Mauch Chunk
Be
warned, this is a VERY LARGE map, weighing in at around 930 Kb!
SURNAMES BEGINNING WITH:
2001
