Fort Allen Well

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lehighton and Parryville.

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.

Parryville is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and is located 3 miles southeast of Lehighton and 1 mile north of Bowmanstown, off Route 248 and 4 miles northwest of Palmerton. Parryville is situated 1½ miles southeast of Fort Allen Well.

Hamlet

Harrity is a village in Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Pohopoco Creek, which flows westward from Beltzville Lake into the Lehigh River to the south of the village in Parryville. Harrity is situated 2 miles northeast of Fort Allen Well.

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “FORT ALLEN WELL // Only remaining part of / Fort Allen, which was / built by the Province / of Pennsylvania, 1756, / under the supervision / of Benjamin Franklin. / The well, now restored, / is located directly / behind houses opposite.”
Category: historic site
Location: Borough of Weissport, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.82949° or 40° 49′ 46″ north

Longitude

-75.7023° or 75° 42′ 8″ west

Open location code

87G6R7HX+Q3

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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