Easton, Pennsylvania Easton, Pennsylvania Easton Flag of Easton, Pennsylvania Easton's locale in Northampton County Easton's locale in Northampton County Easton is positioned in Pennsylvania Easton - Easton Easton is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's populace was 26,800 as of the 2010 census. Easton is positioned at the confluence of the Delaware River and the Lehigh River, roughly 55 miles (89 km) north of Philadelphia and 70 miles (110 km) west of the town/city of New York.
Easton is the easternmost town/city in the Lehigh Valley, a region of 731 square miles (1,893 km2) that is home to more than 800,000 citizens .
Together with Allentown and Bethlehem, the Valley embraces the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton urbane area, including Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties inside Pennsylvania, and Warren County in the adjoining state of New Jersey.
Easton is the smallest of the three Lehigh Valley cities, with approximately one-fourth of the populace of the biggest Lehigh Valley city, Allentown.
In turn, this urbane region comprises Pennsylvania's third-largest urbane region and the state's biggest and most crowded contribution to the greater New York City urbane area.
The town/city is split up into four sections: Historic Downtown, which lies directly to the north of the Lehigh River, to the west of the Delaware River, closing west to Sixth Street; The West Ward, which lies between Sixth and Fifteenth Streets; The South Side, which lies south of the Lehigh River; and College Hill, a neighborhood on the hills to the north which is the home of Lafayette College.
The boroughs of Wilson, West Easton, and Glendon are also directly adjoining to the city; the first and biggest of which, Wilson, partially aligns in the same North-South Grid as the town/city of Easton.
The greater Easton region consists of the city, three townships (Forks, Palmer, and Williams), and three boroughs (Glendon, West Easton, and Wilson).
Centre Square, the town square of the city's Downtown neighborhood, is home to the Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, a memorial for Easton region veterans killed amid the American Civil War.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line (formerly the chief line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad), runs through Easton on its way to Bethlehem and Allentown heading west and to Phillipsburg, New Jersey just athwart the Delaware River.
The site of the future town/city was part of the territory obtained from the Delawares by the Walking Purchase. Thomas Penn set aside a 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) tract of territory at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers for a town.
Easton was settled by Europeans in 1739 and established in 1752, and was so titled at the request of Penn; he had recently married Juliana Fermor, the daughter of Lord Pomfret whose estate was called Easton Neston, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. As Northampton County was being formed at this time, Easton was chose as its county seat.
During the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Easton was signed here by the British colonial government of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Native American tribes in the Ohio Country, including the Shawnee and Lenape.
Easton was an meaningful military center amid the American Revolutionary War. During the Revolutionary War, Easton had a military hospital. On 18 June 1779, General John Sullivan led 2,500 Continentals from Easton to engage British Indian allies on the frontier. Easton was one of the first three places the Declaration of Independence was publicly read (along with Philadelphia and Trenton).
It is claimed that the Easton flag was flown amid that reading, making it one of the first "Stars and Stripes" to fly over the colonies. This flag was used by a militia business amid the War of 1812, and presently serves as Easton's municipal flag.
Easton, photographed about 1896 by William H.
Sited at the confluence of the quickly flowing Lehigh River's waters with the more stately waters of the deeper wider Delaware, Easton became a primary commercial center amid the canal and barns periods of the 19th century, when it would turn into a transit hub for the easterly steel industry.
The Delaware Canal, was quickly assembled soon after the lower Lehigh Canal (1818) became effective in regularly and reliably bringing much needed anthracite coal, into more settled lands along the rivers.
And eventually the Morris would also serve to connect the quickly developing Coal Regions to the north and west, to the fuel starved iron works to the west, the commercial port of Philadelphia to the south, and to the many home owners seeking fuel for heat inside Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and New York.
Seeing other ways of exploiting the new fuel source, other company doers quickly moved to connect athwart the Delaware River reaching into the New York City region to the east via a connection with the Morris Canal in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, so the town became a canal hub or core from which the Coal from Mauch Chunk reached the world.
The early barns s were often assembled to alongside and speed shipping along transit corridors, and by the late 1860s the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (LH&S) and Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) were assembled to augment the bulk traffic through the canals and furnish lucrative passenger travel services.
The LVRR, known as 'the Black Diamond Line' would boast the twice daily "Black Diamond Express" daily passenger trains to and from New York City and Buffalo, New York via Easton.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), would lease and operate the LH&S tracks from the 1870s until the Conrail consolidations combined both the Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1966.
Today, the Lehigh Valley Railroad's chief line is the only primary rail line that goes through Easton and is now known as the Lehigh Line; the Lehigh Line was bought by the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1999.
Canal transit was largely replaced by barns s in the mid-19th century with Easton being a core for five barns s including the Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley Railroad and others.
Easton lost its eminence in passenger transit with the rise of the automobile in the mid-20th century. The evolution of improved logistics, transfer and handling methods lead to other regions profiting from freight transit clean water Easton.
Like the Pennsylvania Dutch region to the southwest, Easton has a strong German heritage.
The Pennsylvania Argus, a German-language newspaper, was presented in Easton until 1917. As part of their heritage, the Germans put up one of the continent's earliest Christmas trees in Easton; Daniel Foley's book states that "Another diary reference unearthed recently makes mention of a tree set-up at Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1816." There is a plaque in Scott Park (along the Delaware River) commemorating this event.
Historians of angling believe that Samuel Phillipe, an Easton gunsmith, invented the six-strip split-cane Bamboo fly rod.
Easton is positioned at 40 41 18 N 75 12 59 W (40.688248, 75.216458). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), of which, 4.3 square miles (11 km2) is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) (8.39%) is water, including Bushkill Creek and the Lehigh and Delaware rivers.
Downtown Easton lies at the confluence of the Lehigh River and Delaware River and is a low-lying region surrounded by hills to the north, west, and south.
South Easton, divided by the Lehigh River from the rest of the city, was a separate borough until 1898; it was settled initially by Native Americans, later by canal workers, and then was later the home of a several silk mills. Easton experiences a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa) or humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification Cfa) depending on the January isotherm used (26.6 F or 32 F), although lying closer to the former.
Climate data for Easton As of the 2010 census, the town/city was 67.2% White, 16.8% Black or African American, 0.4% Native American, 2.4% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian, and 4.9% were two or more competitions.
The increase in Hispanic/Latinos from less than 10% of the populace in the 2000 census, to nearly 20% in the 2010 census, is a momentous change in the city's demographics.
The expansion in Hispanic inhabitants is similar to increases in Allentown and Bethlehem, the two other primary cities in the Lehigh Valley.
Easton Easton Mayor Sal Panto Easton operates a mayor-in-council town/city government.
Residents elect a town/city controller, six town/city councilpersons and a mayor who is also a voting member of the town/city council.
Easton is part of Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district, represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Matt Cartwright, first propel to this office in 2012.
Butler Street (Known as William Penn Highway west of Wilson, then as Easton Avenue nearing Bethlehem) 3rd Street (Known as Smith Avenue south of the Lehigh River, then as Philadelphia Road farther south) The Easton Area Public Library The Easton Area School District serves the inhabitants of the town/city of Easton along with Forks and Palmer Townships and the village of Martins Creek to the north.
As of the 2000 census, the combined populace of the municipalities in the Easton Area School District was 53,554.
The school precinct has seven elementary schools (Cheston, Forks, March, Palmer, Paxinosa, Shawnee and Tracy) for grades K-4, Easton Area Middle School Campus (in Forks Township) for grades 5 8, and Easton Area High School (in Palmer Township) for grades 9 12.
There is also an alternative school called Easton Academy.
Easton Area High School is known for its long-standing athletic rivalry with Phillipsburg High School in neighboring Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
2006 marked the 100th year anniversary of the Easton-Phillipsburg high school football rivalry The game, which was shown on ESPN, was won by Easton.
In 2009, Easton was the locale of the Gatorade REPLAY Game in which the 1993 squads from the Easton vs.
Easton Area High School athletes compete in the Lehigh Valley Conference, which consists of the 12 biggest high schools in the Lehigh Valley.
Easton holds the third most LVIAC championships in all sports, behind only Parkland High School and Emmaus High School. Easton's Lafayette College, established in 1826 Easton is also home to Catholic Notre Dame High School.
Easton is the home of one four-year college, Lafayette College, which was established in 1826.
Lafayette is positioned in the College Hill section of Easton and is home to 2,500 undergraduate students. In 2017 the U.S.
Before the American Civil War, Easton was the locale of Union Law School, which was established in 1846 and seems to have foundered fairly soon after the 1856 death of its founder, judge Washington Mc - Cartney.
World-famous Crayola crayons are produced in Easton.
Easton's Two Rivers Landing is the home of two interactive children's exhibitions, the National Canal Museum, which focuses on the importance of canals in the region, and the Crayola Factory, which is owned by Crayola LLC (formerly known as Binney & Smith), a primary toy manufacturer based in close-by Forks Township.
Majestic Athletic, current provider of uniforms for Major League Baseball, is based in Easton.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey using the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, Lehigh and Hudson River Railway and Conrail are Easton's primary defunct barns s that directed in Easton.
The Norfolk Southern Railway is now the city's only primary barns in Easton.
Easton's daily journal is The Express-Times.
Easton is part of the Philadelphia DMA, but also receives various radio and tv channels from New York City, as well as the lesser Scranton-Wilkes-Barre media market to the northwest.
Two tv stations are based the Easton area: PBS partner WLVT Channel 39 in Bethlehem, and autonomous station WFMZ Channel 69 in Allentown.
Four airways broadcasts are based in Easton: WEEX, a sports airways broadcast transmitting at 1230 AM, WODE-FM "The Hawk", a classic modern station transmitting at 99.9 FM, WCTO "Cat Country 96," a nation music station transmitting on 96.1 FM, and WJRH, a Lafayette College airways broadcast transmitting at 104.9 FM.
In addition, WDIY-FM, a National Public Radio partner positioned in Bethlehem, maintains a translator in Easton transmitting at 93.9 FM.
Easton was once served only by the 215 region code from 1947 (when the North American Numbering Plan of the Bell System went into effect) until 1994.
In response to southeastern Pennsylvania's burgeoning telecommunication demand, Easton telephones exchanges were switched to region code 610 in 1994.
Easton is served by I-78, US 22, PA 33, PA 248 and PA 611.
Trans-Bridge Lines provides regular bus service to New York City.
Air transport to and from Easton is available through Lehigh Valley International Airport, which is positioned approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of the city, in Hanover Township.
Easton has no passenger rail service.
Until 1983 New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line terminated at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on the other side of the Delaware River from Easton.
The former Lehigh Valley Railroad chief line, the Lehigh Line, travels through Easton and is owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Larry Holmes former world heavyweight boxing champion (fought under nickname "The Easton Assassin") Easton Garlic Festival, held in October "Population Finder: Easton, Pennsylvania".
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"Easton Heritage Day".
Average weather for Easton Weather Channel Retrieved 2008-05-12 "City of Easton - City Government - Elected Officials".
"City of Easton Home Rule Charter" (PDF).
"Easton Voters Choose Panto Again".
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