Packerton

Packerton is a hamlet in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Packerton is situated nearby to the hamlet Jamestown, as well as near Long Run.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Asa Packer Mansion and Bear Mountain.

Asa Packer Mansion

Museum

Asa Packer Mansion

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.

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.

Harry Packer Mansion

Guest house

Harry Packer Mansion

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Packerton and Jim Thorpe.

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.

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.

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.

Packerton

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.85607° or 40° 51′ 22″ north

Longitude

-75.71674° or 75° 43′ 0″ west

Open location code

87G6V74M+C8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5883200879

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

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