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2 unusual facts about Lehigh River


Elisha Marshall

They later separated, and Mrs. Marshall lived at Marshall Hill, a fourteen room mansion the Marshalls built on a red shale hill near the Lehigh River and Blue Mountain in Palmerton, Pennsylvania.

Hughie Jennings

While driving a car given to him by admirers, Jennings' car overturned while crossing a bridge over the Lehigh River near Gouldsboro, 23 miles southeast of Scranton.


Gilbert, Pennsylvania

The Pohopoco Creek runs it southward through Gilbert then westward through Beltzville Lake to the Lehigh River.

Pennsylvania Route 378

Route 378 continues northward through Polanski Park and crosses a Norfolk Southern railroad line before crossing the Lehigh River on the Hill to Hill Bridge.

Pennsylvania Route 412

PA 412 intersects an access road to the Hill to Hill Bridge, which carries PA 378 over the Lehigh River to the north, at which point PA 412 turns south onto Brodhead Avenue.

Pisgah Mountain

At the Mauch Chunk-Bear Mountain Gap east of Jim Thorpe, the range ends rapidly descending to the Lehigh River Valley below the northeastern summit marked on USGS topological maps as Mt. Pisgah, which is named for the biblical mountain in Jordan from which Moses first saw the promised land (as are many Mountains around the world and especially in the United States).

Province of Pennsylvania

The colonial administrators claimed that they had a deed dating to the 1680s in which the Lenape-Delaware had promised to sell a portion of land beginning between the junction of the Delaware River and Lehigh River (present Easton, Pennsylvania) "as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half." This purchase has become known as the Walking Purchase.


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Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

When Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) pushed a line into the Lehigh Valley through (left bank) East Mauch Chunk and (right bank, shared with the LH&S) Packerton, the LC&N management suddenly got motivated to have LH&S finish the connecting road through the Lehigh River Gorge.

Pennsylvania Route 378

In 2009, the portion north of the Lehigh River was named the Fred B. Rooney Highway.

Pisgah Mountain

The east end of the ridge is named Mount Pisgah and represents a hard rock knob that towers 700–900 feet above Lehigh River towns Jim Thorpe to the east, and Nesquehoning to its north.

Saucon Creek

Saucon Creek starts in Lower Milford Township, flows to the northeast passing through the communities of Limeport, Bingen, and Hellertown, and joins the Lehigh River in Bethlehem.