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Wind Gap (Pennsylvania Dutch: Gratdaal) is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.The population of Wind Gap was 2,820 at the 2020 census. Wind Gap is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
PA 512 just N of SR 1028, Wind Gap Plaque American Revolution, Military, Native American, Inns & Taverns Sullivan Expedition Against the Iroquois Indians, 1779 - Sullivan Road (PLAQUE) n/a Junction Sullivan Trail & Knox Ave.(following SR 2025, former PA 115), just N of Easton
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.
Under CNJ management, the line was extended the 10 miles (16 km) from Chapman to Wind Gap, opening on August 14, 1878. At Wind Gap, connection was made with the Pennsylvania and New England Railroad, another forerunner of the Lehigh and New England. [2] Another company, the Wind Gap and Delaware Railroad, completed a line between Wind Gap and ...
Wind Gap: Borough 2,720 31 Bath: Borough 2,693 32 Freemansburg: ... William J. Heller, History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh.
In the meantime, the P&NE (PA Division) was successful in laying one and one-sixth mile (2 km) of track to the east of Wind Gap about 1880. However, it was foreclosed on July 25, 1881, and reorganized as the Susquehanna and Delaware River Railroad on August 23, 1881; it was foreclosed again and reorganized on July 13, 1886, as the Harrisburg and New England Railroad was supposedly reorganized ...
By 1960, PA 115 was moved onto a freeway (now PA 33) from Saylorsburg to PA 512 in Wind Gap. [ 28 ] In April 1961, the northern terminus of PA 115 was moved from Hughesville to US 309 (now PA 309 Business , PA 309 Bus.) in Wilkes-Barre Township , with the route replaced by PA 118 between Hughesville and Dallas.
The route heads east through the northern Northampton County boroughs of Wind Gap, Pen Argyl, Bangor, and East Bangor, intersecting PA 191 in Bangor. It then continues east to PA 611. PA 512 was originally designated by 1928 to run from PA 12 (now PA 191) in Hecktown north to PA 12 in Wind Gap. In the 1930s, the southern terminus was realigned ...