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The Slate Belt is a geographic region in Northampton County, Pennsylvania that is typically described as including Bangor, Wind Gap, Pen Argyl, and Portland. [1] The region is named for the historical prevalence of slate quarrying in the area.
The name Mr. Pastie derives from pasty a Cornish word for a type of pie commonly taken by miners to work in the mines of Cornwall. [7] Some of these miners emigrated to the United States and settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, where slate was also mined (the "Slate Belt"), bringing their traditional recipes with them. [4]
Pen Argyl (/ p ɛ n ɑːr dʒ ɪ l /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Kleiberg) is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The borough's population was 3,510 as of the 2020 census. The borough's population was 3,510 as of the 2020 census.
The Martinsburg has three defined members in the Lehigh Valley: The Bushkill Member which is the basal slate unit. The Ramseyburg Member which is composed of alternating turbidite sandstone units with interbeds of shale and siltstone. And the Pen Argyl Member which is the uppermost slate unit with some minor phyllite and shale beds. [3]
Pennsylvania Route 191 runs north-south through Bangor, leading south toward Nazareth and Bethlehem and north toward Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania Route 512 (signed north-south) runs east-west through Bangor, leading east (north) toward Portland and west (south) toward Pen Argyl and Wind Gap. Bangor is served by the 217 bus to Bethlehem, operated ...
The name of this Pennsylvania town was derived from its location at the edge of the Northampton Slate Belt. Slate production began in the area as early as 1808, making it one of the earliest such sites in the United States. [1] Immigrants from Wales and England came to this community during the nineteenth century to work in the quarries ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Northampton County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
Verona is interred in Saint Elizabeth's Cemetery in Pen Argyl. [2] He was a lifelong Catholic . He served as the finance chairman for the Slate Belt Salvation Army , was president of the Easton Association of Life Underwriters, served on the finance committee for his local boy scouts troop, a member of the Lions Clubs International , and ...