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History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon and Schylkill Counties:
Compiled from various authentic sources
By I. DANIEL RUPP

Pulbished by G. Hills, Proprietor, Lancaster, PA., 1845
Page 60

TOPOGRAPHY OF TOWNSHIPS


Lower Mount Bethel township is bounded on the north by Monroe county, east by Upper Mount Bethel, south by Forks township and the Delaware river, and west by Plainfield township. The surface is partly hilly, and some portions of it level. A small proportion is limestone soil, but the greater part is gravel. It is pretty well watered by Richmond creek, or Oquirton, Martin's and Muddy creeks. The Oquirton affords some mill power. Martin's creek rises at the foot of the Blue mountain, and runing a south-western course, empties into the Delaware some fifteen or twenty miles above Easton. It affords several excellent mill seats. There are nine grist and eight saw mills in this township. There is a post office at Martin's creek in this township, and near it, two splendid churches, the one an English Presbyterian, the other a German Reformed and Lutheran; both within a mile of the Delaware river. There are several small villages in the township.

Richmond, a post village, is the principal one ; it is near the head of Oquirton, or Richmond's creek. It is on the main road from Easton to the Delaware Water Gap, fourteen miles from the former, and eleven from the latter—also eleven miles from the Wind Gap. It contains between thirty and forty dwellings, two stores, two taverns, a grist mill, a distillery and an excellent tannery. It was laid out many years ago. The population is between two and three hundred.

Flatfield, on Martin's creek, is the name given to an irregularly built village, laid out by William McCall, about twenty years ago. Here are eight or ten dwellings, two mills and an extensive tannery. A bridge across Martin's creek here.

The population of the township in 1820, was 2,472 ; 1830, 2,666; 1840,2,957; taxables in 1844, 659. County rates a levies, 1844, on professions, $95,327 ; real estate, horses and cattle, $865,780. Amount of state tax, $2,081 11.

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