Methodist Cemetery in Colesville, Pennsylvania

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Get directions Near intersection of Oakhurst Drive and Old Bethlehem Pike
Colesville, Pennsylvania, USA

Coordinates: 40.57106, -75.39446
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This small cemetery served a Methodist Episcopal Chapel attended by many families of men employed in the zinc mines in nearby Friedensville, Lehigh County, Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania. The land for the chapel was donated by the owner of the mines, the Lehigh Zinc Company. Many of the miners were from Cornwall, England. In 1872, the largest mine, the Ueberroth, installed the largest Cornish-style steam engine ever built. It was called The President (after President U. S. Grant) and used to drive pumps to remove water from the mine workings. A large stone engine house still stands at the Ueberroth Mine site, about 0.4 miles south of the cemetery. The chapel closed sometime after the mines closed in the late 1800s. The cemetery property is owned by the nearby Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.