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FORKS TOWNSHIP-(1754) THE township of Forks is bounded on the north by Plainfield Township on the northeast and east by Lower Mount Bethel, and the Delaware River, which separates it from the State of New, Jersey on the south by the Borough of Easton and Palmer township; which last named also bounds it on the…

THE borough of Chapman is located on the west branch of Monocacy Creek, in the southern part of the territory of Moore township. Its borough existence has been but brief, the incorporation having been effected in the year 1865. The population of the borough, in the census of 1870, was three hundred and eighty-eight. It…

THE Borough of Bath was incorporated February 1st, 1856, and the first election was held oil the twenty-first, of the following March, The first borough officers were, Burgess, James Vleet Members of Council- Andrew Haupt Thomas Moser John Morey Jacob Shinier Samuel Straub; Secretary, Abraham Knecht; High Constable, Benjamin Hunt; Street Commissioner, Daniel Miller; Treasurer,…

THE Borough of Bangor embraces within its limits a tract of five hundred and fifty acres, of ground, situated in the northern part of Washington township, on Martins Creek, and also being on the line of the proposed South Mountain Railroad, fourteen miles from Easton. The town owes its existence to the discovery, and successful…

THE BOROUGH OF NAZARETH. BY REV. EDWARD H. REICHEL. IN the year of Grace 1457, some of the religious followers of the staunch Bohemian martyr, John Huss (who was burnt at the stake on July 6th, 1417), formed themselves into a close church fellowship with like-minded believers from Moravia, and assumed the name of “The…

AFTER the establishment of the Moravians at Bethlehem, in 1741, the Society purchased, from time to time, lands contiguous to their settlement, not only on the north but also on the south side of the Lehigh, until they became possessed of four large and valuable farms, in Lower Saucon and Salisbury townships, opposite and above…

Borough History of Bethlehem by C.O. Zigenfuss, Esq. AWAY beyond the period (1845), when Bethlehem became a borough, in the age of which Bishop de Schweinitz elsewhere so fully writes, the brave men White, Hazard, Miner and others of the pioneers of the anthracite coal interest, had found “the black diamond,” and had sent down…

Calypso Island was a beautiful resort located on an island in the Lehigh River near Fountain Hill. The island was named for the beautiful sea nymph in Greek Mythology by State Representative George Henry Goundie during a Fourth of July celebration in 1869. Pleasure-seekers enjoyed the thirteen acres of natural grounds and the pleasure boats…

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