Mauch Chunk Creek
Mauch Chunk Creek is a 9.2-mile-long tributary of the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is dammed to form Mauch Chunk Lake near the borough of Summit Hill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Harry Packer Mansion.
Asa Packer Mansion
Museum
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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.
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.
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 east of Mauch Chunk Creek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jim Thorpe and Packerton.
Jim Thorpe
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.
Lehighton
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lehighton is a borough in the Coal Region, near Jim Thorpe, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Mauch Chunk Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the United States of America
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Mauch Chunk Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mauch Chunk Creek”
- Cebuano: “Mauch Chunk Creek”
- Slovenian: “Mauch Chunk Creek”
- Venetian: “Mauch Chunk”
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