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Erskine Hazard Jacob Weiss Josiah White to start to link the area coal region together, this is where i have to start at

The Carbon County Courthouse, located in Jim Thorpe, PA, was built in _______________ at a cost of 65,000 dollars which is - in today's money. It was designed after the London Tower and Big Ben. The stone façade was _______ and it was the 3rd such court house for the county seat of Carbon County. The previous court houses were started in ________ and __________ and located at ______ but later torn down. Making way for the downtown courthouse and main courthouse staple of today.

The Mauch Chunk Lake was originally built by a damn designed by the Army Corp of Engineers in early 1972. It was officially opened in the summer of 1974. It was at a cost of 3 million dollars, which would be __________ in today's money. It was commissioners Agnes T McCartney and Rep. Daniel Flood who oversaw the venture. Before this manmade lake was opened, the water that ran from the natural springs fed atop the _________ mountain was cause for alarm for theMauch_Chunk_Creek. There were a number of floods throughout the years flooding upper and lower Broadway the main street in town. Some of the worst floods occurred in 1861, 1901, 1902, and in 1969. One of the first tests of this damn was put to the test with Hurricane Agnes, as the damn held and many of the towns near that area got up to 18 inches of rain.

>https://www.tnonline.com/2012/jun/25/mauch-chunk-lake-turns-40