1956 Map of Easton

About this map

Easton and Phillipsburg sit at the confluence of the Lehigh River and the Delaware River, serving as a major mid-century industrial and transport hub. The landscape is defined by the steep grades of Chestnut Hill and Marble Mountain, which hem in the dense residential and educational centers. The campus of Lafayette College overlooks the city of Easton, while the surrounding hills are dotted with parochial institutions like St Joseph Sch & Ch and St Marys Sch & Ch. This 1956 survey, updated with purple revisions in the early 1970s, captures the complex rail infrastructure of the Lehigh Valley RR, Penn Central, and the Erie-Lackawanna crossing the rivers. Beyond the urban cores, the map shows the transition to smaller settlements such as Raubsville, Glendon, and Alpha, where numerous quarries and gravel pits point to the area's extraction history.