Lausanne-Nescopeck Turnpike

The 1808 boundaries of Lausanne Township (Today's Lausanne township is much smaller than its frontier days), situated as the northwestern corner region of Carbon County, Pennsylvania pretty much incorporated most of the terrain shown in this view, excepting the left side and bottom-left corner terrain (Lands west of the Schuylkill watershed). This expanse includes the lands (diagonally) of Beaver Meadows, PA, Weatherly, PA to Jim Thorpe, PA
 • The ruins of the nineteenth-century hamlet of 'Lausanne Landing' anchored the southern terminus of the toll road in the vicinity of the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek. ...?
 • Lausanne-Nescopeck Turnpike - originated on the north side of the cutting made by W-to-E draining Nesquehoning Creek, probably climbing from Jean's Run on a traverse up to the current roadbed of PA 93 where it switchbacks to descend to the current elevated bridge from US 209.

The Lausanne-Nescopeck Turnpike or Susquehanna & Lehigh Turnpike[1] (1805-1840s) also mentioned often as the Lehigh-Susquehanna Turnpike (or Lehigh & Susquehanna Turnpike)[lower-alpha 1] was a highly profitable foot traffic toll road established during the earliest days of the American canal age — one of the many privately funded road (and transport infrastructure) projects established after the 1890s in the young United States era to open up and promote growth of the American Frontiers by building connecting transport infrastructure.[1] Like many others, the toll road consisted generally of improvements along the path of an ancient Susquehannock Amerindian trail traveling generally south-southeast to north-northwest across the the parallel barrier ridges and steep valleys in the Ridge and Valley Appalachians connecting the center waters of the Lehigh River valley on the opposite shore from the Lehigh Gorge exit to Nescopeck, Pennsylvania (and Berwick on the opposite shore of the (Main Branch) Susquehanna River. Ultimately Berwick to Tioga & Elmira, New York would be connected via the Susquehanna & Tioga Turnpike which was purpose built to provide communication from the cities and towns along the Delaware River including communities in New Jersey and Delaware in the Delaware Valley and Philadelphia and Buffalo, New York

beginning from Lausanne Landing (and Landing Tavern), at the mouth of Nesquehoning Creek along the southeastern escarpment of Broad Mountain descending into and through Waverly, thence up the Hazel Creek across the drainage divide in the saddle hosting Hazleton, Pennsylvania, then proceeding along more westerly in a descent from the highland paths down traverses of a string of valleys near or through the Nescopeck Creek valley.

The first section of the turnpike was authorized by an act of the Legislature "March 19th, A.D. 1804" enabling the Governor to incorporate a company by the name of the President, Managers and Company of the Susquehanna and Lehigh Turnpike to make an "artificial road from Nescopeck on the N. E. branch of the Susquehanna, to the Lehigh River." The original capital stock was authorized in the amount of $60,000, composed of 600 shares at $100 a share. The success of the Susquehanna & Lehigh Turnpike carried over to the need to continue pushing north into New York state with a turnpike.
— News Feature[1], Benton News
through joint-stock venture...

Notelist

  1. ↑ The name preference seems geographically linked to the perspective of the location of the offices of the particular newspaper reporting on the toll road. These mentions are themselves rare, since there wasn't much controversial about a public way unless it involved deaths or felony larceny.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Turnpikes, Including the Union Turnpike, the Susquehanna & Tioga Turnpike and the Susquehanna & Lehigh Turnpike, archived from the original on 3 Jul 2013, retrieved 8 April 2013
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