Canal shipping was eventually replaced by railroad shipping. It would thereby ship LC&N's coal to Philadelphia, Trenton, New York City, and other large cities in New Jersey and Delaware, and by ocean to the whole East Coast. The town would be the lower terminus of a gravity railroad, the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad, which would bring coal to the head of the LC&N Lehigh Canal for transshipment to the confluence of the Delaware River, 43 kilometres (26.7 mi) downstream at Easton. The company town was founded by Josiah White and his two partners, founders of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N). Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as "Mauch Chunk" ( / ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k/), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk (Bear Place) in the language of the native Munsee-Lenape Delaware peoples: possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original profile of the ridge, which has since been changed heavily by 220 years of mining. Central Railroad of New Jersey Station, now a visitors center
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