Jamestown

Jamestown is a hamlet in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Jamestown is situated nearby to the hamlet Packerton, as well as near North Weissport.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Bear Mountain.

Asa Packer Mansion

Museum

Photo: Chris18240, Public domain.

The Asa Packer Mansion is a historic house museum on Packer Road in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, United States. Completed in 1861, it was the home of Asa Packer, a coal and railroad magnate, philanthropist, and founder of Lehigh University. Asa Packer Mansion is situated 2 miles northwest of Jamestown.

Bear Mountain

Peak

Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir. Bear Mountain is situated 2 miles north of Jamestown.

Harry Packer Mansion

Guest house

Photo: KForce, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Harry Packer Mansion, is a historic home which is located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District, this residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974. Harry Packer Mansion is situated 2 miles northwest of Jamestown.