PRINTER'S NO. 3234
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
786
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY HEFFLEY, KNOWLES, TOOHIL, READSHAW, RYAN, NEILSON,
SONNEY, DUSH, YOUNGBLOOD, SCHLEGEL CULVER, MURT, DiGIROLAMO,
BOBACK, WARD, KINSEY, MILLARD, HAHN, SAMUELSON, HICKERNELL,
CALTAGIRONE, PICKETT, HENNESSEY AND J. McNEILL, APRIL 3, 2018
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 3, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating the 175th anniversary of Carbon County.
WHEREAS, On March 13, 1843, Governor David Rittenhouse Porter
signed the historic act creating Carbon County from sections of
Northampton County and Monroe County; and
WHEREAS, Carbon County's name alludes to the deposits of
anthracite coal in the region; and
WHEREAS, The county seat was originally founded as Mauch
Chunk, a native American name meaning "bear mountain"; and
WHEREAS, Mauch Chunk was the company town of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company; and
WHEREAS, In 1954, Mauch Chunk was renamed Jim Thorpe in honor
of the famous Native American athlete who is buried there; and
WHEREAS, Carbon County was home to the Switchback Railroad,
the country's first large-scale railway; and
WHEREAS, Beginning in 1827, the Switchback was first used to
carry coal and continued in operation through the 1930s as a
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