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On the settled eastern seaboard, forest decimation created an energy crisis for coastal cities, but the lack of water- and roadways made English coal shipped across the Atlantic cheaper in Philadelphia than Pennsylvania anthracite mined 100 miles away. ... George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and other founding fathers believed they were the key to the New World's future.
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