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Lawrenceville, Pitt t-ship, Alleghe- ny co., on the Allegheny river, about 3 ms. above Pittsburg. At this place is an arsenal, and U. S. military de- .pot.
Lawsville, t-ship, Susquehannah co. bounded N. by the state of N. York, E. by Great Bend and New Milford t-ships, S. by N. Milford and Bridge- water, and W. by Silverlake t-ships. Greatest length N. and S. 8 miles, breadth E. and W. 6 ; area, 30,720 acres. It is watered by Snake creek, whose ramifications extend over the t-ship, in all directions. There is a p-o., called Lawsville, in the S. E. angle of the t-ship, and another, called Lawsville Centre, distant from Harris- burg 171 ms. Surface hilly ; soil, clay and gravel. Pop. in 1830, 873 ; taxables, in 1828, 129. There is a salt spring near the centre of the t- ship, on the bank of the main branch of Snake creek.
Leacock, t-ship, Lancaster county, bounded N. by Earl t-ship, E. by Salisbury, S. by Strasburg and Lamp- eter, and W. by Manheim. Centrally distant E. from Lancaster about 8 ms. ; greatest length 8}, breadth 5 miles ; arca 25,072 acres ; surface, level ; soil, limestone and clay. Pop. in 1830, 3315 ; taxables, 625. Pecquea creek forms the S. E. boundary, and the Conestoga river the W. ; Mill creek crosses it centrally and diagonally. The Philadelphia and Lancaster turn- pike road touches the southern angle, anthracite coal of the Sharp mountain,
turnpike road crosses it in the N. W., on which, about 9 ms. from Lancaster, is the Leacock p-o., 116 ms. from W. C. and 42 from Harrisburg. The vil- lage of Intercourse lies on an interme- diate road, about 12 ms. E. of Lan- caster, and is a post town.
Lebanon county, was formed from parts of Lancaster and Dauphin cos., by act of assembly passed 16th of Feb. 1813, and is bounded on the S. E. by Lancaster co., on the S. W. and N. W. by Dauphin, and on the N. E. by Berks and Schuylkill. Length 17, breadth 17 ms. ; area, 288 sq. miles. Central lat. 40° 25' N., long. 0° 30' E. from W. C.
This is one of the finest counties of the state ; and pertains to the great transition formation, lying chiefly be- tween the South mountain and the Kit- tatinny range and in the great lime- stone valley. The limestone forma- tion extends from the southern boun- dary over more than half its surface, and is separated from the slate in most places by the Quitapahilla and Tulpe- hocken creeks. The southern hills have great abundance of iron ore. The surface of the county is much di- versified in its northern and southern parts, but the central parts are level or rolling, and the soil, whether of lime- stone or slate, generally well cultivated and productive.
The principal streams are the Great and Little Swatara, which flow wes- terly to the Susquehannah, and the Tulpehocken, which by an easterly course seeks the Schuylkill. On the south, the Conewago, Great and Little Chiques, Hammer and Seglock creeks have their sources in the hills. The valleys of the Swatara, Quitapahilla and Tulpehocken, have supplied a channel for the Union canal, which crosses the county from west to east, and is fed by these streams, and by a reservoir formed on the former in a gap of the Kittatinny mountain. The feeder from this reservoir is navigable, and gives commodious access to the
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in Pine Grove t-ship, Schuylkill co. The canal passing through the town of Lebanon, gives it every advantage of commercial communication with the east and the west.
The county is traversed in every direction by good roads. The turn- pike from Reading to Harrisburg runs westerly through it, and the turnpike from Ephrata to Harrisburg crosses the S. W. angle.
The chief towns are Lebanon, Mil- ler'stown, Palmyra, Campbell'stown, Sheaffer'stown, Myer'stown, Jones- town.
In East Hanover t-ship, between the First and Second mountain, is a noted cold spring, a famous watering place, much resorted to in the hot weather of the summer, for pleasure and health. Mr. Samuel Winter has erected a large and commodious house of enter- tainment here, which is 100 feet in length.
The population of the county is al- most wholly German, and consisted in 1820, seven years after its erection, of 16,988 souls, and in 1830, of 20,546, of whom 10,377 were white males ; 10,079 white females ; 47 free black males ; 33 free black females ; 1 male and 4 female slaves. There were in the county, 132 aliens, 21 deaf and dumb, and 9 blind.
The public buildings of the county consist of a large and neat brick court house and offices, in Lebanon borough; a stone prison, surrounded on three sides with a stone wall, 16 feet high ; an alms house and house of employ- inent now being erected on a farm of 170 acres of excellent limestone land, cost $70 per acre, 1} ms. E. of the bo- rough of Lebanon, on the S. side of the Reading turnpike, and on the head of the Quitapahilla creek. This building is 114 feet long by 40 wide, and of brick ; there is also on the farm a large 2 story brick dwelling, which will be the hospital. The farm was purcha- sed pursuant to an act of 16th of April, 1830. An academy, incorporated in 1816, to which the state made a dona- tion of $2000 ; 17 churches in differ-
ent parts of the county, 7 of which pertain to the Lutherans, 2 to Metho- dists, 1 to Catholics, 1 to the Menon- ists, and the remainder are in common to the Lutherans and German Re- formed.
There are county Bible and tract societies ; a library at Lebanon, and 3 journals published weekly at Lebanon, viz. the Morning Star, Pennsylvania Observer, and Lebanon Democrat. By acts of 11th of April, 1827, and Ist of April, 1831, authority was giv- en to establish a bank at Lebanon borough, with a capital not exceeding $200,000.
The manufactures of the county are chiefly of a domestic character, except those of iron, and two woollen factories. B. D. Coleman has two furnaces, one in Londonderry t-ship, called Cole- brook, and another in Lebanon t-ship, Cornwall. Jacob B. Wydeman has one forge, and Samuel Light another. Gen. Harrison has a woollen factory on Indian creek, in East Hanover t- ship ; Mr. Light has also a woollen factory, and John Long a fulling mill. The county contains more than 20 grist mills, most of which are stone, and many large and competent to the manufacture of great quantities of flour. The chief exports are wheat flour, rye, and corn and clover seed. Of the last, more than 2000 bushels per annum have been exported. The pro- duce of the county is generally carried to the large and commodious store- houses on the canal at Lebanon, and is thence sent to the city of Philadel- phia. The agricultural skill of the county has all that German industry and perseverance can give it, and we know no higher encomium for it.
If the enjoyments of the inhabitants of this county be not very refined, they are simple and stable. It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to find in any part of the world, a greater portion of comfort more equally dif- fused and more permanently assured.
The value of limestone lands is from $70 to $75 the acre, and where a farm has the advantage of a mill seat, it is
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worth from $150 to $175 the acre. [face, hilly ; soil, gravelly loam. The The slate lands of good quality bring from $30 to $35 the acre, and the poor lands of Hanover and Swatara townships, sell from $15 to $20 the acre.
The estimated value of real estate in the county, by the census of 1829, was $5,185,853.
The county paid into the
state treasury, in 1831, for tax on writs,
$136 86
Tavern licenses, 571 44
Duties on dealers in foreign merchandize, 305 94
" on collateral inheritances, 307 04
Hawkers and pedlars' licenses, 30 40
$1351 68
Lebanon and Dauphin counties form the 6th congressional district, sending one member to congress ; they make also the 8th senatorial district, sending one member to the senate; Lebanon, Dauphin and Schuylkill compose the 12th judicial district, over which Cal- vin Blythe, Esq. presides. The courts are holden at the borough of Lebanon, on the 1st Mondays after the com- mencement of the courts in Schuylkill, which are holden on the last Mondays of March, July, October and Decem- ber. This county belongs to the Lan- caster district of the supreme court, which holds an annual session at Lan- caster on the 3d Monday in May.
STATISTICAL TABLE OF LEBANON CO.
Area
Townships.
Greatest Lth. )Bth.
in Acres.
Population in 1820.
1830.
Tax- abl's.
Londonderry,
10
6
25,600
1,629
1,874
998
Annville,
10
7
21,700
2,322
2,736
441
Jackson,
71
63
14,640
1,748
2,120
405
Lebanon,
11
44,700
4,496
3,556
628
East Hanover,
11
6ª
30,700
1,871
2,498
404
Heidelberg,
11
8
35,800
2,384
2,822
457
Bethel,
12
5
17,920
2,538
1,604
284
Swatara,
10
31
15,360
1,510
281
Lebanon boro'
1,826
365
16,988| 20,546 3563
Lebanon, t-ship, Wayne county, bounded N. by Buckingham, E. by Damascus, S. by Dyberry, and W. by Mount Pleasant t-ships. Its greatest length is about 62 miles, and breadth about 6 miles. It is drained by small tributaries of Dyberry creek. Sur.
Coshocton and Great Bend turnpike road crosses it centrally from E. to W. Pop. in 1830, 285; taxables, 58; taxable property in 1829, seated lands, $26,226 ; unseated, $47,296 ; personal estate, including occupations, 3770.
Lebanon, t-ship, Lebanon county, bounded N. by Swatara and Bethel t-ships, E. by Jackson and Heidelberg t-ships, S. by Lancaster county, and W. by Londonderry and Annville t-ships. Greatest length 11, greatest breadth 7 miles ; area, 44,700 acres ; surface, level ; soil, limestone, chiefly. Pop. in 1830, 3556 ; taxables, 628. The Quitapahilla creek rises centrally in the t-ship, and flows E. by the bor- ough of Lebanon, receiving Furnace and Meadow creeks. The Union canal, and the Reading and Harris- burg t-pike cross the t-ship, from E. to W. and pass by the borough. Iron ore is found in the Conewago hills, in the S. part of the t-ship, and Cornwall furnace is established, at the head of Furnace creek.
Lebanon, borough and post-town, Lebanon t-ship, Lebanon co. on the turnpike road from Harrisburg to Reading, 25 miles E. of the former, and 28 miles W. of the latter, 134 miles from W. C. It is the st. of jus. of the county. It is regularly laid out, and the dwellings are chiefly of brick or stone. Pop. in 1830, 1826 ; taxables, 365. The Union canal passes through the town. There are in the borough 303 dwellings, 12 tav- erns, 9 stores, 1 grist mill and 1 clover mill, 5 churches, viz : 1 Lutheran, of stone with a large steeple, 1 German reformed, also of stone with a steeple, a Catholic chapel of brick, a Metho- dist meeting of brick, and a Menonist meeting house, a library, large brick court house and offices, a large stone prison, surrounded by a wall 16 feet high, 4 large store houses on the ca- nal, 3 breweries. The inhabitants are nearly all of German descent, and it is commonly said by them, when at work on their farms and outlots, that
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the citizens are not at home. There| are 3 weekly newspapers printed here, viz : Lebanon Morning Star, Penn. Observer, and Lebanon County Dem- ocrat. The town was incorporated 20th Feb. 1821. (See Lebanon co.)
Le Bœuf, t-ship, Erie co. bounded N. by Waterford t-ship, E. by Union t-ship, S. by Crawford co. and W. by Conneautte t-ship. Centrally distant S. E. from Erie borough 17 miles ; greatest length 8, breadth 5 miles ; area, 25,600 acres; surface, hilly ; soil, gravelly loam. Pop. in 1830, 554; taxables, 122. French creek enters the t-ship by the N. E. angle, and passes through it by a very devi- ous course into Crawford county, re- ceiving from the t-ship Le Bœuf cr. The turnpike road from Meadville to Waterford, runs N. through it.
Lectler town, a village of Adams county, containing 80 dwellings, 2 stores, 3 taverns and 2 churches.
Leechburg, a new and increasing town on the Kiskiminitas river, and on the State canal at Dam No. 1, con- tains 30 dwellings, 3 taverns, 3 stores, and a post-office. It is about 13 miles S. of Kittanning, 227 from W. C. and 196 from Harrisburg. The town is named after Mr. Leech.
Leesburg, post-town of Lancaster county, 118 miles from W. C. and 44 from Harrisburg, 9 or 10 miles S. E. of Lancaster, contains 8 or 10 dwell- ings, 1 store, and 1 tavern.
Legates creek, Luzerne county, rises in Abington and Greenfield t-ships, and flows through a ravine between the Capous and Lackawannock moun- tain into the Lackawannock river. It is a rapid stream, and drives a mill near its junction with the river.
Lehigh creek, Little, rises in Berks county, and running a S. E. course, receives the waters of the Cedar creek and Jordan, and falls into the Lehigh river at the borough of Northampton. It is a beautiful stream, and has a num- ber of flour mills upon it ; but it is na- vigable only about a half mile from its mouth.
Lehigh river. This beautiful, ro-
mantic, rapid and much noted stream, rises in Wayne, Pike, and Luzerne counties, but its various confluents unite near Stoddartsville, on the N. W. border of Northampton county, and the stream being augmented by many mountain creeks, flows by com- parative courses 25 miles, to the mouth of Wright's Mill creek. Thence turning nearly S. by a very serpen- tine course, but in a direct line of 20 miles, it passes Mauch Chunk to Le- highton. Here it deflects to S. E. and pursues that direction 25 miles to Allentown or Northampton. At Al- lentown, it turns at nearly a right an- gle towards the South mountain, and assuming a N. E. course along the foot of the mountain, flows past Beth- lehem, and reaches the Delaware at Easton, 25 ms. below Allentown. Its entire comparative course is 85 miles. From near its extreme source to Trout creek, it separates Pike and Luzerne counties. From Trout creek to Rock Eddy falls, it divides Northumberland from Luzerne. Below those falls to its passage through the Kittatinny mountain, its course is within North- ampton county. Between the moun- tain and the mouth of Hockendocque creek, it forms the boundary of Le- high county, from Hockendocque to Bethlehem it flows through Lehigh county, and from Bethlehem to East- on again, its course is through North- ampton.
The Lehigh is truly a mountain tor- rent, which rushes through scenes of exquisite beauty and sublimity, not surpassed by any in the United States. The fall of the river is from Stod- dartsville to the mouth of the Nesque- honing creek, about 2 miles above Lausanne and 3 above the village of Mauch Chunk, 845 feet ; from Nes- quehoning to the Lehigh Water gap, 260; from the gap to Easton, 205. From Easton to tide water, in the Delaware river at Trenton, the stream falls about an hundred feet. The Le- high at Stoddartsville is therefore ele- vated 1410 feet above the level of the ocean.
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. In its natural state, the Lehigh was navigable for boats carrying 15 tons as far as Lausanne, at the foot of the Broad mountain, where a rocky rapid just above the Turnhole, called Hatch- eltooth falls, impeded the ascending navigation. When the river was low, which is generally the case in August and September, boats with loading could not ascend further than the bor- ough of Northampton, where the riv- er receives considerable accessions from the Jordan and Little Lehigh creeks. From the confluence of the Lehigh with the Delaware, the dis- tance to the landing, at the head of navigation, is by the river about 45 miles. Above Lausanne the country along the river is so mountainous, as to be entirely uninhabitable. These hills extend as far up as the mouth of Bear creek in Luzerne county, and rise so steeply and so abruptly from the bank of the river, that they are in ma- ny places inaccessible, overhanging the river in perpendicular ledges, and forming many picturesque and roman- tic scenes. This part of the country is so rude, wild and barren, that it re- pels all efforts at settlement ; and from the Great Falls at Stoddartsville to Lausanne, a distance of about 30 ms. there was not even one house erected in 1817, the country being a com- plete wilderness. The river is almost one continued rapid through this whole distance, and so obstructed by rocks, that no attempt had then been made to descend the river with any kind of boat, raft or craft, except in one or two instances by a skiff or ca- noe,
The navigation of this river has been wonderfully improved, principal- ly by the exertions of those enterpris- ing and ingenious gentlemen, Messrs. Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, who on the 20th March, 1818, obtain- ed from the legislature an act author- izing them to commence their opera- tions. They pursued the labors as- siduously for 4 years, in improving the navigation of the river, and devel- oping the riches of the coal mines at
Mauch Chunk, and were finally incor- porated with others into a body politic, under the title of the Lehigh coal and navigation company, on the 13th Feb. 1822. The privileges bestowed by the charter were more ample and danger- ous than the legislature perceived at the time ; but more caution has attend- ed subsequent legislation on the subject.
The company commenced opera- tions by completing a descending na- vigation, only for the purpose of bring- ing their coal and lumber to market, which was the chief object they had in view. This they effected after the following manner :- Thirteen dams and sluices were built, of a peculiar and novel form, and the obstacles in the bed of the river were removed. The dams served a double purpose, creating pools of navigable water and reservoirs, at certain fixed periods ; when the boats, or rather arks, were in attendance at the respective dams, the sluices permitted them to pass with great rapidity ; but they consumed a vast quantity of water, and were only adapted to a descending body. Below the dam and sluices the sudden influx of water created an artificial freshet, which increased the depth and rapid- ity of the r. On the Delaware r. as far as Trenton, the natural channel was used; below Trenton to Phila. a steamboat was employed to tow the arks, in gangs of 18 or 20 together. The planks of which the arks are built are sold in the city.
After the expenditure of large sums of money, the company resolved to change their plan, and to make a lock navigation, on which steamboats might be employed. Accordingly a lock was built, measuring 135 ft. in length, and 30 in breadth, communicating with a canal 5 feet deep, and lined throughout its whole length, near a mile, with stone. But as this plan proved also very expensive, and the state had about this time commenced the Delaware canal, from Easton to Bristol, another change became expc- dient. Locks of a different size were
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adopted, and canals made where they ||Lehigh Water Gap. There are some would be cheaper than dams, pools, 8 or 10 dwellings here, a p-o. a ta- vern, a store, a mill, and a kiln for making hydraulic lime, the stone for which is taken from the mtn. There is a dam here across the r. which cre- ates a placid pool in the mtn. gorge ; and a bridge below it. (See Lehigh t-ship.) The village is about 30 ms. from Easton, 195 from W. C. and 92 from Harrisburg. and tow paths. The latter were ex- tended 10, and the former 353 miles. The canals are 45 feet wide at the wa- ter line, and 5 feet deep. The locks are 100 feet long, and 22 feet broad, through which it is intended to pass the boats (which are 106 inches wide) in pairs. The locks on the state ca- nal adjoining are 90 by 11 ft.
The amount expended by the com- pany, in improvements of every de- scription, will be detailed in the article Mauch Chunk. That village was built by them, at the mouth of a creek of the same name. The water power of the stream is employed in giving motion to various ingenious machines, invented chiefly by Messrs. White and Hazard.
Various efforts have been made to connect the Lehigh with the Susque- hannah, by means of Bear creek, near Wilkesbarre, or by means of Nesco- peck or Catawissa creeks, tributaries to the Susquehannah. But as a suffi- cient supply of water cannot be pro- cured without resorting to machinery, a communication by rail road is now contemplated, and will doubtless be adopted. Since the year 1762, 63 different routes for connecting the Del- aware and Susquehannah rivers have been examined and surveyed. One of these routes is in New York, near the state line ; 32 were in Delaware and Maryland, and the remainder of course in Penn.
Lehigh Water Gap, the name given to the pass of the r. Lehigh through the Blue mtn. This place possesses much of interest and beauty, among the many beautiful and picturesque scenes along the margin of the Lehigh r. The mtn. is cleft from top to bot- tom, and rises on either hand appa- rently 1000 ft. presenting a promon- tory of rocks and forest. The right bank is most precipitous, and the steep rocks are called " the pulpit rocks." On the left a narrow space of river bottom gives room for the canal, for a road, and a small village called the
Lehigh county, was separated from Northampton by act of assembly pass- ed 6th March, 1812. It is bounded S. E. by Bucks, S. W. by Montgom- ery and Berks, N. W. by Schuylkill and Northampton, and N.E. by North- ampton. Length 28, and width 15 miles ; area 389 miles, or 248,960 acres. Central lat. 40° 38', long. 1º 25' E. The surface of this county is highly picturesque and varied. Ex- cept the 3 south eastern t-ships, Upper Milford, and Upper and Lower Sau- con, the residue of the co. lies in the valley between South mtn. and the Blue or Kittatinny mtn. The valley section is nearly equally divided be- tween the limestone and the clay slate formation. The soil, particularly on the limestone tracts, is excellent. The whole co. with but partial exceptions, is well adapted to the culture of grain, grass and fruits, though in many places the surface is excessively broken. The r. Lehigh forms the N. E. boun- dary between this co. and the co. of Northampton, from the Water gap of the Blue mtn. to the N. line of Hano- ver t-ship, thence entering the co. it forms the W. and S. boundaries of that t-ship, and by a N. E. course re-enters Northampton. The chief tributaries from the co. to the river are Trout cr. Antelauny, Coplay, Jordan, Cedar, Saucon, and the Little Lehigh creeks. A branch of the Perkiomen rises in this co. among the spurs of the South mtn. The canal of the Lehigh navi- gation and coal company follows the course of the Lehigh river along and through this co.
A very fine chain bridge is thrown across the Lehigh r. at the town of
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Northampton. It consists of 2 loops[[ lentown academy, in the borough of and 2 half loops, and is suspended by 4 chains. It is 230 ft. long and 30 ft. wide. There are also excellent stone bridges over the Lehigh and the Jor- dan creeks, near that borough. There is also a bridge at the Water gap, and at other places over the r. Lehigh within the co.
There is a remarkable limestone cave in North Whitehall t-ship, within 2 or 3 ms. of Allentown, on the bank of the Jordan creek, near which is a spring equally remarkable, called the Cavern spring.
The principal towns are Allentown, or Northampton, Segersville, New Tripoli, Trexlerstown, Emaus, Mil- lerstown, Frysburg, &c.
The pop. of the co. is chiefly Ger- man. By the census of 1830 it con- tained 22,266 inhabitants, of whom 11,186 were males, 10,988 females, white ; 45 males, 45 females, colored ; 68 aliens ; 22 deaf and dumb, 3 blind, 1 slave. In 1820 there were 18,895. This co. forms part of the eastern dis- trict of the supreme court, which is held in Phila. on the 2d Monday in March and 2d Monday in Dec. and to- gether with Northampton and Berks composes the 3d judicial district of co. courts. The courts are held in Le- high on the Mondays succeeding the second weeks of the courts of North- ampton co. Lehigh and Northampton form the 12th senatorial district, which sends two senators to the state legisla- ture; Lehigh sends two members to the house of representatives ; with Berks and Schuylkill it forms the 7th congressional district of the state, rep- resented in the 22d congress by Henry A. Muhlenberg and Henry King.
The public buildings consist of a court house and offices, built of hewn limestone, a spacious prison of like material, and an academy in North- ampton, the county town. There are 12 churches in the co. beside three in the borough.
The prevailing religion is Lutheran, Presbyterian and Moravian.
By act 18th March, 1814, the Al-
Northampton, was incorporated, and the sum of $2000 granted to it, one half toward the erection of a building, and for the purchase of books and in- struments, and the remainder to be vested in aid of other revenues, to com- pensate teachers, upon condition that a number of poor children shall be ad- mitted into the academy gratis, for a term, each, not exceeding 2 years, in case of other applicants. There is also a sufficient number of schools in every t-ship for the instruction of the children in the rudiments of an English education, there being about 40 in the co. and a public library at Northamp- ton.
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