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Stroudsburg: 21: John Turn Farm: John Turn Farm: July 23, 1979 : Northeast of Stroudsburg: Middle Smithfield Township: 22: Zion Lutheran Church: Zion Lutheran Church: November 9, 1972 : Off River Road east of East Stroudsburg
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.
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 ...
St. Mary's church, finished in 1842, was the first Catholic church in Wilkes-Barre. [9] The first one in Scranton was built in 1852 on the site of the present day Church of Nativity. [10] In Williamsport, a German group erected the first Catholic church, St. Boniface, in 1855. [11]
St. John the Evangelist Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Center City, Philadelphia, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. From 1838 to 1864 it served as the cathedral for the diocese. The historic Gothic Revival parish church, completed in 1832, is located just south of Market Street on 13th Street, a little more than a ...
St. John's Church was organized on December 26, 1799. George Drum (the first) was a founding member of the church, invested in its construction, and helped build it. George Drum and Anna Margaret gave birth to a son, Isaac, on Oct. 18, 1799 who died as a child in 1804 and was the first Drum's family members buried at St. John's Cemetery on May ...
St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church and School Building is a historic former Roman Catholic church and school building at 419 N. Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.
Business 209 joins the 209 bypass just east of the village. A roundabout is located just south of the village where the Bypass and Seven Bridges Road meet. Although the village has its own box post office with the zip code of 18335, some residents are served by the East Stroudsburg PO with the zip code of 18301 or 18302.