Lock 44

Lock 44 is a lock gate in Northampton, Pennsylvania. Lock 44 is situated nearby to the ruins Geissinger Grist Mill, as well as near the nature reserve Freeman’s Island.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sacred Heart School and Minsi Trail Bridge.

Sacred Heart School

School

Sacred Heart School is a Catholic private elementary school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Sacred Heart School is situated 3,000 feet north of Lock 44.

Minsi Trail Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

The Minsi Trail Bridge is a bridge in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which crosses the Lehigh River. It carries four lanes of Stefko Boulevard. Minsi Trail Bridge is situated 2 miles southwest of Lock 44.

The First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was established in 1875, and the present building on Center Street was completed in 1957. The Church had 2,609 members as of June 2015 but the Presbyterian Church, like every mainline Protestant denomination, has suffered a decline in national membership, especially over the past decade. First Presbyterian Church is situated 2½ miles west of Lock 44.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freemansburg and Pembroke Village.

Freemansburg

Village

Photo: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Freemansburg is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,875 as of the 2020 census. The Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long tributary of the Delaware River, flows through Freemansburg.

Pembroke Village

Neighborhood

Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.

Pembroke is a public housing community in northeast Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The area was listed as a national historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Butztown

Hamlet

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Butztown is an unincorporated community in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania. It is located northeast of Bethlehem. The village 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.

Lock 44

Type: Lock gate
Category: transportation
Location: Northampton, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.63326° or 40° 37′ 60″ north

Longitude

-75.33275° or 75° 19′ 58″ west

Open location code

87G6JMM8+8V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11985474309

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=lock_gate

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