Английская Википедия:Bear Mountain (Carbon County, Pennsylvania)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Original research Шаблон:Infobox mountain range Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about Шаблон:Convert between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people (Delaware people) visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir.[1][2]

The sparsely settled mountain ridge is part of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, oriented east-northeast towards the Delaware River climbing rapidly from the Lehigh left bank shoreline from about Шаблон:Convert[3] over an overhanging knob opposite the mouth of Mauch Chunk Creek to more than Шаблон:Convert in less than Шаблон:Convert and to over Шаблон:Convert in just Шаблон:Convert the tourism and business district of Jim Thorpe. Bear Mountain is the prominent peak opposite the business district of the tourist attractions of Jim Thorpe in Carbon County, once termed being in the heart of "Switzerland of the United States". The former township and borough of East Mauch Chunk was settled outside the hustle and confusion of cross-river boomtown Mauch Chunk[4]

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  1. The Penn Forest Reservoir is within a nature preserve, part of the Bethlehem Municipal Water Authority due south of Albrightsville.
  2. Distance from Google topo map anchored: Left side, on the east river bank, elevation ca Шаблон:Convert just off the water; Ridge right limit: on knob where Hatchery Road crosses the Шаблон:Convert elevation line (Lehighton, PA 40.930056,-75.569044 per Google map).
  3. From topo map, consistent with known water heights of the Lehigh Canal, the upper dams of which are still in place.
  4. Letter by co-founder George Hauto in late December 1819, stated to a Pennsylvania State Rep. that Lehigh Navigation Company had built 40 buildings in the less than 18 months from commencing operations there. Various company officers and managers built homes across the upper pool instead of on company lands in upper Mauch Chunk.