EASTON 



1911 



EAST RIVER 



Brothers; this plant was swept away by the 

 flood of 1852 and was not rebuilt. 



EASTON, ees'tun, PA., an important shipping 

 point in the eastern part of the state, a manu- 

 facturing city, and the county seat of North- 

 ampton County. It is situated on the Dela- 

 ware River, which forms the eastern boundary 

 of the state, at the point where it receives the 

 waters of the Lehigh River. Allentown is 

 seventeen miles southwest, Philadelphia is 

 sixty-nine miles south and New York City is 

 seventy-four miles east. The Central of New 

 Jersey; the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- 

 ern; the Lehigh Valley, and the Pennsylvania 

 railroads serve the city, and interurban trolley 

 lines connect with adjacent cities and towns, 

 serving 200,000 people. Bridges connect with 

 Phillipsburg, across the Delaware River, and 

 with South Easton, on the opposite shore of 

 the Lehigh. All nationalities are represented 

 in the population, which increased from 28,523 

 in 1910 to 30,530 in 1916. The area of the city 

 exceeds three square miles. 



Easton is located in the picturesque valley 

 of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers, bordered by 

 rugged hills, on the slopes of which the newer 

 section of the city is built. The older part 

 has a central public square, and many of the 

 buildings were constructed before the Revolu- 

 tionary War. The city has a $75,000 Federal 

 building, a $75,000 Carnegie Library, handsome 

 bank buildings constructed at a total cost of 

 $1,000,000, and three hospitals. Lafayette Col- 

 lege, Park Academy and two business colleges 

 supplement the public school system. 



The region surrounding Easton is known 

 as the great cement belt, but it is also rich in 

 deposits of slate, iron ore and anthracite coal. 

 Within a twenty-five mile radius, sixty-five per 

 cent of the entire American slate output is 

 quarried and manufactured, and forty per cent 

 of the entire American Portland cement output 

 is made. There is direct water route to New 

 York and Philadelphia. Its many, varied manu- 

 factures range from heavy mining machinery 

 to light silken fabrics. There are several largo 

 blast furnaces, rolling mills and foundries. 

 About 5,500 people are engaged in the silk 

 industry. 



History. Easton was founded in 1752, was 

 incorporated as a borough in 1789 and was 

 chartered as a city in 1887. It was named for 

 William Penn's manor-seat in England. Im- 

 portant treaties with the Indians were made 

 here at various times between 1756 and 1761, 

 and it was the starting point for General John 



Sullivan's expedition against the Iroquois In- 

 dians. The Reformed Church in North Third 

 Street, used as a hospital by the patriots dur- 

 ing the War of Independence, and the home 

 of George Taylor, one of the signers of the 

 Declaration of Independence, are historical 

 features of interest. In 1912 Easton adopted 

 the commission form of government, with five 

 elective officers. T.A.H.H. 



EAST ORANGE, N. J., a residential city in 

 Essex County, ten miles west of New York 

 City. . It is in the northeastern part of the 

 state, adjoining Newark, and with Orange, 

 West Orange and South Orange, forms practi- 

 cally one community known as "the Oranges." 

 It is served by the Orangf branch of the Erie 

 Railroad, which has two stations in the city, 

 and by the Delaware, Lackawanna A Western, 

 which has four stations. There are electric 

 lines to neighboring cities. The population, 

 which in 1910 was 34,371, was 42,458 according 

 to a Federal estimate of 1916. 



East Orange has many attractive suburban 

 homes and villas. There are several handsome 

 churches, a $400,000 high school building, a city 

 hall, a Carnegie Library and the clubhouse of 

 the Woman's Club of Orange. There are im- 

 portant manufactories of dynamos and other 

 electrical appliances, pharmaceutical supplies, 

 valve fittings and water-works supplies. 



The township of East Orange was separated 

 in 1863 from the township of Orange, which in 

 1806 had been separated from the township of 

 Newark. It became a city in 1899. R.HJ>. 



EAST PROVIDENCE, R. I., a town in 

 Providence County, on the east bank of the 

 Seekonk River, by which it is separated from 

 Providence, the state capital. It is on the New 

 York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and 

 on electric interurban lines. The industrial 

 enterprises include oyster fisheries, chemical, 

 electrical and wire works, a shoe-string factory 

 and a bleachery. East Providence waa settled 

 about 1644 and was first a part of Rehoboth. 

 Seekonk was separated from Rehoboth in 1812. 

 and after the adjustment of the Mamachusetts- 

 Rhode Island boundary lino, East Providence 

 was separated from Seekonk and incorporated 

 in 1862. The area of the town exceeds thirteen 

 and one-half square miles. In 1010 the popu- 

 lation was 15.808; in 1916 it waa 18.113. 



EAST RIVER, the ten-mile strait connecting 

 Long Island Sound and New York harbor, ep- 

 aratinp the boroughs of Brooklyn and Man- 

 hattan. It is connected with the Hudson River 

 by the Harlem River and Spuytcn Duyvil 



