Preserving the Rich Industrial History of Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania |
This site is dedicated to preserving the history of zinc mining in the Center/Saucon Valley area of Upper Saucon Township. The village in the center of this zinc mining heritage is Friedensville. Here in the 1840s the discovery of zinc rich mineral deposits lead to, along with concurrent developments in New Jersey, the first industrial scale zinc extraction and processing enterprises in the United States. Ground breaking and transformative technologies were employed to accomplish this task. The mining activities in the Friedensville area continued, on and off, until 1984. Today, various remnants of this industry survive, and a movement is underway to preserve the central 19th century mining location as an interpretative open area museum and park.
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The President Pumping Engine
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1480 Saucon Meadow Court
Bethlehem, PA 18015 |
Mark Connar
610-248-6653 |