New Jersey Zinc Company, Palmerton Plant, Between Route 248 & Hazard Road at Hazard Hamlet, Palmerton, Carbon County, PA

Significance: The New Jersey Zinc Company opened its Palmerton Plant to produce metalic zinc, zinc oxide, spelter, and spiegeleisen from ores mined in Sussex County, New Jersey. The plant included over 31 buildings on 200 acres. The company laid out and built the entire town of Palmerton, starting in 1899, including the hospital, community center, park, streets, sewer system, and worker's housing. After 1913, the company built a primary ore reduction plant two miles northwest of the first plant, one mile from Palmerton on the banks of the Aquashicola Creek. Sulphuric Acid mist from the smelters has caused sever defoliation of the hills surrounding the two plants. They continue to operate today.
Survey number: HAER PA-163
Building/structure dates: after 1899 Initial Construction