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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJV4_moravian-cemetery_Bethlehem-PA.html
Used as a burial place, 1742-1910. Site selected and consecrated by Count von Zinzendorf. Only flat gravestones were permitted. Here are the graves of persons of various nationalities and races.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJV2_moravian-archives_Bethlehem-PA.html
Repository for records of the Moravian Church, first organized in 1757. The Archives holds a unique collection of manuscripts, books, music and images relating to the history of the Moravians in North America from 1740 to the present.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJUX_george-taylor_Easton-PA.html
One of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, member of Continental Congress, ironmaster, lived in this house built in 1757 by William Parsons, Surveyor-General. First occupied by Parsons.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJUW_david-martins-ferry_Easton-PA.html
Operated at "The Forks" on grants received in 1739 and 1741. It was an important link on a main route to the west until 1806. Transported troops and supplies in the Revolutionary War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJUB_samuel-phillippe_Easton-PA.html
Recognized as the inventor of the split-bamboo fishing rod in the U.S. His first rent and glued-up cane rod was made about 1846 in his gunsmith shop that stood on this site.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJU0_dr-florence-seibert_Easton-PA.html
Birth site of the renowned biochemist. In spite of the handicap of polio, she developed in the 1920s a safe process for intravenous therapy. Later, in 1934, she refined the tuberculin skin test that was ultimately adopted worldwide.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTY_first-reformed-church_Easton-PA.html
Congregation organized 1745. This building, enlarged and restored, was erected, 1776. Scene of Indian Treaty, 1777. During the Revolutionary War, it was used as a military hospital.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTH_lafayette-college-founding_Easton-PA.html
At White's Hotel near here, on Dec. 27, 1824, local citizens gathered to found Lafayette College. One of their leaders, James Madison Porter, had recently met Lafayette during the French general's well-received American tour of 1824-25, that reviv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTF_sullivans-march_Wind-Gap-PA.html
Heller's Tavern near Wind Gap was the site for Sullivan's army at the end of the first day's march from Easton, June 18, 1779. The army was astir at 4 the next morning, crossing the mountains at Wind Gap.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJSR_slate-industry_Bangor-PA.html
Robert M. Jones of Wales, who came here in 1848 as an immigrant, began the slate quarrying industry. The region became a major world center for slate. From here came slate for roofs and old-time school slates and pencils.