Editing Carbon County, Pennsylvania (section)

===Coal ===
In 1791, a homesteader, Phillip Ginter, hunting on Sharp Mountain along [[Pisgah Mountain]]<ref>The "reasonably local Sharp Mountain of today is the same ridge, but is geographically limited by modern USGS conventions to the part west of the [[Little Schuylkill River]]'s [[water gap]]. The Sharp Mountain SUMMIT, was a peak near [[Summit Hill, Pennsylvania]], now leveled by mining activity."</ref> discovered a black tone [[coal]] outcropping, and conveyed a chunk of it to [[Weissport, Pennsylvania|Weissport]].