Jacksonville,_Lehigh_County,_Pennsylvania

Jacksonville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Jacksonville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States


Jacksonville is an unincorporated community that is located in Lynn Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.

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History

After land had been given for a church and churchyard, the first house was built in 1820.[2] The village was named after President Andrew Jackson in 1845.[3]

Points of interest

Monument to Frederick Leaser at Leaser Lake in Jacksonville

References

  1. "Jacksonville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Mathews, Alfred; Hungerford, Austin N. (1884). History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Everts & Richards. p. 312.
  3. Miller, Benjamin L. Toponymy (PDF). p. 74.

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