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Academy Hill Historic District is a national historic district located in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Bordered by Sarah, 8th, Fulmer, and 5th streets, the district encompasses 180 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Stroudsburg. [2] [3] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Location of Monroe County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register ...
NW corner of 9th & Main Sts. (PA 611 & US 209), at Historical Assoc., Stroudsburg: City Forts, French & Indian War, Military Fort Hamilton - PLAQUE: n/a NW corner of 9th & Main Sts. (PA 611 & US 209), at Historical Assoc., Stroudsburg
Stroudsburg was laid out by Colonel Jacob Stroud in 1799. Stroud's family founded Stroudsburg in the mid-1700s, and the town was incorporated on February 5, 1815. [3] Stroudsburg was the location of the lynching of Richard Puryear in March 1894. A Black railroad worker accused of murdering a white storekeeper, Puryear was lynched by a mostly ...
This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania . Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population.
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites ...
Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2] Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties and contains 2,560 municipalities.
In 1737, present-day East Stroudsburg was settled by Daniel Brodhead, a judge from Marbletown, New York, who acquired a 1,000-acre lot of land on and around where Lehigh Valley Hospital–Pocono Hospital currently stands at 206 E. Brown Street in what then was Bucks County and now is Monroe County along the east bank of Brodhead Creek, then known as the Analomink River.