Carbon County, Pennsylvania
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Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. The county is part of the Northeast region of the commonwealth.
Clockwise from top left: Beltzville State Park, Beltzville Lake, Bowmanstown, and Packerton
Corporate headquarters of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company in Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe; the company, which was founded in 1822 and dissolved in 1985, spearheaded the American Industrial Revolution
A state historical marker in Jim Thorpe
The Lehigh River flowing through Riverview Park in Palmerton in March 2010
Lehighton, Pennsylvania
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Lehighton is a borough in Carbon County, in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Carbon County, Pennsylvania
…through Carbon County. In 1745, the first colonial settlement in Carbon County was established by a Moravian mission in Gnadenhutten, in present-day Lehighton. By 1752, increased hostility between colonialists and Indians put Gnadenhutten at risk for attack; in 1755, the community was attacked by Indians. In…
US 209 southbound in Lehighton