Mauch Chunk

Mauch Chunk, later renamed Jim Thorpe, was “touted later in the nineteenth century as the Switzerland of North America to promote tourism on the Lehigh Railroad, [and] is endowed with astonishing scenic and picturesque possibilities.”

Quote From: Blume, Peter F. "Gustav Grunewald 1805–1878." Allentown Art Museum Publication, 1992. Page 21.