Abijah Smith & Company

Abijah Smith & Company is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Plymouth, Luzerne County, dedicated 1989.

US 11 (Main St.) at Natl. Guard Armory, Plymouth

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Established 1807 by Abijah Smith, who had bought 75 acres here on Ransom Creek and was later joined by his brother John. Their shipments of coal by ark down the Susquehanna, begun in 1807, continued for 20 years. This company was, in 1818, the first to extract Pennsylvania coal by powder blasting. In the same family almost 70 years, it was considered the first commercially successful U.S. anthracite firm.

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1804 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · M: Untitled outline map of Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · Carte des Provines Septles. des Etats-Unis. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1811 · A Map Of The State Of Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1812 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Abijah Smith & Company

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