Easton
a city and county-seat of Northampton co., Pa.; on the Delaware and Lehigh rivers; the Delaware, Morris, and Lehigh canals; the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Hudson River and the Lackawanna railroads; 67 miles N. of Philadelphia. It has extensive water power and shipping facilities, and contains the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad, railway supply, chemical, hosiery, machine pumps, stores, blast furnaces, woolen goods, and other manufactories.
The city has electric and gas lighting plants, electric street railroads, connecting with Bethle- Allentow Allentown, 3 National and several private banks, high school, public library, old ladies' and children's home, daily and weekly newspapers, and is the seat of LAFAYETTE COLLEGE (q. v.). Pop. (1910) 28,523; (1920) 33,813.