Landscape Design Services: Easton Pa

Earth in Hand Landscape Design has been serving Easton PA since 1994 - making Easton even more beautiful. Read a little about the history of Easton Pennsylvania.

Easton is situated at the confluence of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers, a popular area long before it was settled by Europeans. The Native Americans knew this place as "Lechauwitank", or "The Place at the Forks". Thomas Penn was so inspired by the beauty of the place that he set aside a 1000 acre (4km²) tract of land here for a town. Easton, founded in 1752, 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, in Northamptonshire, England. As the new county of Northampton was being formed at this time, Easton was selected as its county seat, at least partially because it was as far as possible from the Moravians who were settled further up the Lehigh River at Bethlehem.

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