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Nesquehoning is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 3,336 at the 2020 census. [4]
Nesquehoning may refer to the following places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, a borough in Carbon County Nesquehoning High School, in the above borough; Nesquehoning Creek, a tributary of the Lehigh River; Nesquehoning Mountain, also known as Nesquehoning Ridge, a 15-17 mile long coal bearing ridge
Carl Gugasian (born October 12, 1947) is an American bank robber, known as "The Friday Night Bank Robber", who served a 17-year sentence for armed robbery. He is perhaps the most prolific of such criminals in US history, having robbed more than 50 banks over a 30-year period of a total of more than $2 million.
Nesquehoning Creek is an east flowing 14.9-mile-long (24.0 km) [1] tributary of the Lehigh River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. [2] Nesquehoning Creek joins the Lehigh River 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream of the borough of Jim Thorpe in Carbon County. [2]
These buildings and others such as storehouses, a saw mill and the turnpike toll house were all located near the 'Delta' of the Nesquehoning, the wide shallow slopes in the flood prone mouth terrain [d] at the confluence of the Lehigh River coming westwards out of the Lehigh Gorge and the east flowing Nesquehoning Creek flowing down its steep ...
Nesquehoning Mountain [3] or Nesquehoning Ridge [2] is a 15–17-mile-long (24–27 km) coal bearing ridge dividing the waters of Lehigh Valley to the north from the Schuylkill River valley and the several near parallel ridgelines of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians barrier range all local members of which run generally WSW-ENE in the greater overall area.
Nesquehoning High School is an historic, American high school that is located in Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [ 1 ]
The Room Run Gravity Railroad was replaced by the Nesquehoning Valley Railroad. A new main line was completed in April 1870 along with the Hauto Tunnel through Nesquehoning Mountain to coal yards in Lansford, Pennsylvania, and the rest of the Panther Creek Valley was completed in 1872 as a joint-effort of the CNJ and Lehigh. CNJ operated the ...