Pennsylvania was the keystone of America's founding,
                                          Northeastern Pennsylvania was the cornerstone of America's success.

The people of NEPA, through their labor with coal, iron, and steam, assured America's experiment in democracy,
saved it from self-destruction, and created the dynamo that drove it to international dominance.

  •   The transfer of primary industrial technology from Wales to NEPA's anthracite region in the 1800's
transformed America from a dependant consumer to an independent entity, well able to defend its
experiment in democracy.

  •   The outcome of America's Civil War was greatly determined by the Union's antebellum industrial base,
extensive rail system, and a fuel resource that was the genesis of both.

  •   NEPA provided an essential energy source equal in importance to today's oil, and a financial resource
for industrial expansion that enabled America to surpass Britain as the world leader.


Anthracite and iron not only created America's prosperity, but the crush of immigrant families who made it all
possible, forced us to address social and economic issues whose outcomes would shape how we would work
and live in our modern nation .
Northeastern Pennsylvania
      "The Cornerstone of America's Success"
The great Corliss Steam Engine,  1876.
Early Radio  Development
Early Iron Capital
Stourbridge Lion 1829
Electric Trolley Service
D & H Canal and Gravity Railroad
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