Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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Jim Thorpe is a borough and the county seat of Carbon County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is historically known as the burial site of Native American sports legend Jim Thorpe.
View of Jim Thorpe from the Asa Packer Mansion grounds in November 2016
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center
Jim Thorpe's gravesite
View of Mauch Chunk in 1869
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 Pennsylvania region of the state.
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, was founded in 1822 and dissolved in 1986.
A state historical marker in Jim Thorpe
The Lehigh River flowing through Riverview Park in Palmerton in March 2010