Jim Thorpe Monument
Jim Thorpe Monument is a monument in Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Jim Thorpe Monument is situated nearby to Jim Thorpe Memorial Park, as well as near the fire station Fairview Hose Company 2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 1½ miles southwest of Jim Thorpe Monument.
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 southeast of Jim Thorpe Monument.
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 1½ miles southwest of Jim Thorpe Monument.
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
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
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 Jim Thorpe Monument.
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.
Jim Thorpe Monument
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.88472° or 40° 53′ 5″ northLongitude
-75.72551° or 75° 43′ 32″ westElevation
945 feet (288 metres)Open location code
87G6V7MF+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 357322014OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jim Thorpe Memorial Park and Fairview Hose Company 2.
Nearby Places
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