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Asa Packer: A Man in the Age of American Industrialization

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Welcome to "Asa Packer: A Man in the Age of American Industrialization"! This section of the exhibit will feature Asa Packer's life within the context of his own industrial career, along with American Industrialization in the nineteenth century in general.

This page has paths:

  1. Investigating the Life of Asa Packer Jay Donis

Contents of this path:

  1. The Humble Beginnings of an American Industrialist
  2. Overview of Industrialization
  3. The Move to Mauch Chunk
  4. Can Railroads Replace Canals as the Primary Means for Transporting Coal?
  5. Building the Lehigh Valley Railroad
  6. Rapid Expansion of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
  7. Packer's Later Years in the Lehigh Valley Railroad
  8. The Importance of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to Asa Packer and His "Railroad Family"
  9. Interpretations of Asa Packer, as an American Industrialist, From His Contemporaries