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If you are considering moving to Easton PA
below you will find background, history and information dealing with home
inspections issues in Easton Pennsylvania. Our Home Inspectors are local, born and raised
in the Lehigh Valley
and have a passion for not only the area, but the historic structures we can
all enjoy.
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Easton Pennsylvania
is uniquely located within an hour of New York City,
Philadelphia and the Pocono
Mountains. Along with Allentown and Bethlehem, it is one of the primary cities
of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania's
third most populous metropolitan area. Easton
is the smallest of the three Lehigh Valley
cities, with about population of 26,000. However Easton is the County Seat of goverment for Northampton County.
The city is divided into four sections: Historic Downtown, which lies
directly to the north of the Lehigh River, to the west of the Delaware
River, and continues west to Sixth Street; The West Ward, which lies
between Sixth and Fifteenth Streets; The South Side, which lies south of the
Lehigh River; and College Hill, a neighborhood on the hills to the north which
is the home of Lafayette College. The boroughs of Wilson, West Easton, and Glendon are also directly adjacent to the
city; the first and largest of which, Wilson, partially aligns in the same
North-South Grid as the city of Easton.
The greater Easton area consists of the city, three townships (Forks, Palmer, and Williams), and
three boroughs (Glendon, West Easton, and Wilson).
Easton PA, Centre Square
Centre Square, the town square of the city's Historic Downtown neighborhood,
the Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, a memorial for Easton
area veterans killed during the American Civil War. You can enjoy a walking tour of our historic
sites, leisure horse-drawn carriage ride through our historic district or a
pleasant mule-drawn canal boat ride along Hugh
Moore Historic Park.
You and your children can visit the Crayola® Factory and our National
Canal Museum.
Easton is home to Lafayette
College, one of the finest
institutions of higher learning in America.
The State Theatre opened in 1926 on the vaudeville circuit, the State
Theatre is a non-profit, member supported performing arts center in Easton,
PA where over 100 top name performers a
year are enjoyed.
Easton PA, the Peace Candle
During the Christmas season the Peace
Candle, a candle-like structure, is assembled and disassembled every year
atop the Civil War monument. Downtown Easton
also boast fine dinning, shopping and antique shops for your enjoyment.
Education in Easton
Pennylvania
The Easton Area School District
serves the residents of the city of Easton along with Forks and Palmer Townships and two smaller
non-contiguous communities: the borough of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania to the south
and the village of Martins Creek, Pennsylvania to the north. The school
district has seven elementary schools for grades K-4, Easton Area Middle
School Campus for grades 5-8 and Easton Area High School (in Palmer Township) for grades 9-12.
Total student enrollment is about 9000 students in all grades.
Easton Area
High School is known
for its long-standing athletic rivalry with Phillipsburg High School in
neighboring Phillipsburg, New Jersey. The two teams
play an annual football game on Thanksgiving
Day that is considered one of the largest and longest-standing rivalries in
American high school football. 2006 marked the 100th year anniversary of the
Easton-Phillipsburg high school football rivalry Easton Area
High School competes athletically
in the Lehigh Valley Conference, a division
comprising the 12 largest Lehigh Valley
high schools. Easton holds the
third most Lehigh Valley Conference championships in all sports, behind only Parkland High School
and Emmaus High School.
Easton is the home of one
four-year college, Lafayette College, which was
established in 1826.
History of Easton Pennsylvania
The site of the future city was part of the land obtained from the Lenape Native Americans by the Walking
Purchase.
Thomas
Penn set aside a 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) tract of land at
the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware
rivers for a town. Easton was settled by Europeans in 1739 and founded in 1752, and was so named at the request of Penn; he had recently married Juliana
Fermor, the daughter of Lord Pomfret whose estate was called Easton
Neston, was in Northamptonshire, England
Bachmann Tavern, Easton PA
On the northeast corner of Northampton
and Second St is the
Bachmann Tavern, the oldest building remaining in the city. The land deed was secured from the Penns on Nov 17th 1754 by John
Bachmann, its builder. The building
served as a tavern and long time residence of George Taylor, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence. The Tavern
was visited by the likes of George Washington, Ben Franklin and other founding
fathers. It was like many taverns, a
social center of colonial times, and often served as a courtroom until the
original courthouse was completed in 1765.
During the American Revolutionary War, Easton was
an important military center and Easton
was one of the first three places the Declaration of Independence was
publicly read (along with Philadelphia and Trenton). According to local legend, Easton flag
flew during that reading, making it one of the first "Stars and
Stripes" to fly over the colonies. This flag currently serves as Easton's
municipal flag.
Canal Museum Mule Ride, Easton PA
Easton became a major commercial
center during the canal and railroad periods of the 1800s, when it was a
transportation hub for the steel industry. Three local canals, the Delaware, the Lehigh,
and the Morris,
served to connect the coal region, the iron works and the commercial ports of Philadelphia
and New York City. When
railroads replaced canals, Easton
served five railroads; only the emergence of automobiles ended the area’s
transportation prominence.
Radon in Easton and Northampton County
This is a EPA created chart for Northampton County that shows the average percentage of homes with Radon levels above 4.0 pCi/l in each
zip code.
Local Links for Easton PA
City of Easton PA City Page
http://www.easton-pa.gov/
Easton PA Palmer Township Page
http://www.palmertwp.com/
Easton PA Forks Township Page
http://www.forkstownship.org/
Easton PA Williams Township Page
http://www.williamstwp.org/
Easton PA Borough of Wilson Page
http://www.wilsonborough.org/
Easton PA Borough of West Easton Page
http://www.westeastonborough.org/
Northampton County Page
http://www.northamptoncounty.org
The State Theatre Easton PA
http://www.statetheatre.org/
Easton PA The Crayola Factory
http://www.crayola.com/factory/
Radon in Easton and Northampton County
Radon,
the second leading cause of lung
cancer, is a radioactive gas that comes from the natural breakdown
of uranium in soil and rock and gets into the air you breathe. It moves through
the ground and into your home through cracks and other holes in the foundation
where it can accumulate to unsafe levels. Because it is odorless, colorless,
and tasteless, testing is the only way to know if you and your family are at
risk from radon. Have Allegiant Home
Inspections add a radon test to your Home Inspection. Our Home Inspectors are certified with the PA
DEP to conduct radon test. If your test
show you are at risk, most times a mitigation system can be negotiated into the
price of your home at closing.
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Radon Test Data by Zip Code
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