L B Morris Elementary School

L B Morris Elementary School is a school in Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania which is located on West 10th Street. L B Morris Elementary School is situated nearby to the peak Bear Mountain, as well as near the hamlet Packerton.

Type: School
Also known as: “LB Morris Elementary School”
Address: 150 West 10th Street, Jim Thorpe, PA 18229

Places of Interest Nearby

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 1¼ miles south of L B Morris Elementary School.

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 1½ miles east of L B Morris Elementary School.

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 1¼ miles south of L B Morris Elementary School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jim Thorpe and Packerton.

Jim Thorpe

Photo: Ram-Man, GFDL.

Jim Thorpe is a borough in the Coal Region, near Lehighton, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Packerton

Hamlet

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Packerton is a village located in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River and U.S. Route 209 between Jim Thorpe and Lehighton. It uses the Lehighton ZIP code of 18235. Packerton is situated 2 miles south of L B Morris Elementary School.