Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
1916

Easton, a city and the capital of Northampton co., Pa., is pleasantly situated on the Delaware River, at the mouth of the Lehigh, 65 miles N. of Philadelphia and 75 miles W. of New York, on the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley and other railroads. It is connected by bridges with Phillipsburg, in New Jersey, and with South Easton. Easton is partly built on the sides of hills, and is surrounded by picturesque scenery. It has a central public square, opera-house, public library, several academies and collegiate institutions, and is the seat of Lafayette College (Presbyterian), which was founded in 1826, and has about 450 students. Easton has several iron-furnaces, machine- shops, foundries, flouring- and planing-mills, shoe-factories, felting-works, silk-mills, and manufactures of drills, compressors, pianos, organs, automobiles, cordage, braces, etc. It is situated at the junction of the Delaware, Lehigh, and Morris canals, by which large quantities of coal, iron, grain, lumber, stone, etc., are received and exported. Pop. in 1890, 14,481 ; in 1900, 25,238.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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