Английская Википедия:Beaver Creek (Lehigh River tributary)

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Beaver Creek in Carbon County, Pennsylvania is an east-to-west-running tributary of the Lehigh River giving name to and draining the southern terrains of Beaver Meadows into Black Creek.

The creek rises Шаблон:Convert southeast of the intersection of Main Street and Lincoln Circle[1] in Junedale, one unincorporated village (neighborhood) of Banks Township at the northwestern corner of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, and runs nearly due east-northeast through the center of Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania Шаблон:Convert to the centerline of Weatherly, where it turns abruptly and runs due south 1.25 miles through the center of Weatherly, where, Шаблон:Convert from its source, it merges with Hazle Creek, thereby forming Black Creek, Pennsylvania, which turns abruptly east from its origin.

History

The streams played a large role in the development of the Province of Pennsylvania as a turnpike was constructed from LausanneШаблон:Efn along Black Creek and Beaver Creek, north from Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania to the Susquehanna River, and the developing Industrializing United States, as a 19th-century transportation corridor hosting the Beaver Meadows Railroad connecting Beaver Meadows via Weatherly and Penn Haven Junction to the Lehigh Canal.

See also

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  1. Distance measured on Google map using ruler tool from west end of pond to intersection listed. co-ords of source are 40.921497, -75.934440, Banks Township, PA.