Easton Historic District

Easton's historic district lies on a peninsula where the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers meet, in Northampton County. Its buildings range from colonial-era stone houses to Art Deco structures, though most date from 1830 to 1910, when three canals and five railroads made the town prosperous. William Parsons and Nicholas Scull laid out the town in 1752 for Thomas Penn, and Parsons built a stone house there by 1757. Easton hosted Indian Treaty Councils between 1756 and 1758, and its tavern and Center Square were central to those meetings. During the Revolutionary War it served as a supply depot and as the starting point of General Sullivan's 1779 campaign. The district contains forty-three buildings regarded as significant, including the Easton House Tavern, the Mixsell House, and the Herman Simon House. Brick is the most common material, and the Spring Garden and North Third Street blocks retain much of their nineteenth-century appearance.