SWITCHBACK CHIM MT JEFFERSON

Recovered in Destroyed Condition on May 7, 2005

Spatial/elevation data

Coordinates	N 40.82555° W 75.857333°
Elevation	Unknown
Location	Pennsylvania Carbon County Nesquehoning Quad

Mark description

Type	Landmark/Intersection Station
Setting	Chimney
Monumented	1885 by NGS
Description (NGS)	NGS Datasheet

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NGS recovery information

Metadata

Photographs not submitted Coordinates not updated

Descriptive text

Recovered in destroyed condition.

Narrative and photographs

While enjoying a day of mountain biking on the Switchback Trail, Rich and I took a short detour from Summit Hill to search the area near the coordinates for any sign of the old chimney. We found a depression in the ground at the coordinates, and some bricks strewn around in the woods (but no evidence that the bricks came from the old chimney). Our NGS contact confirms that we positively identified the former location of the station.

Photographs and a report on the condition of this station were submitted to NGS, which subsequently marked this station officially Destroyed.

NGS Landmark/Intersection Station SWITCHBACK CHIM MT JEFFERSON

Engine house, smokestack and chimneys. The pond nearby served as a reservoir for the steam engine boilers.

The engine house framed by the chimneys, pre-1900.