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Monroe County, Pennsylvania

Monroe County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Stroudsburg
Year Organized: 1836
Square Miles: 607
Court House:

1 Quaker Plaza, Room 201
County Courthouse
Stroudsburg, PA 18360-2141

Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for Jacob Stroud, a settler.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Created on April 1, 1836, from parts of Northampton and Pike Counties and named for President James Monroe. Stroudsburg, the county seat, was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1815, and named for Jacob Stroud, a settler.

Nicholas DuPui settled at Shawnee in 1729 and used the Old Mine Road to market his wheat in New York. This area saw fighting in the French and Indian War; Fort Penn was on the site that became Stroudsburg. The Brodhead family developed East Stroudsburg. A road to Easton was opened in 1774. Monroe County was created because Easton and Milford were too far away from too many people. After 1856 Monroe grew because it lay on the corridor used by railroads carrying anthracite, although it has no coal of its own. The railroads started a big tourist business for the Delaware Water Gap, and in the 1920s tourism spread deep into the Poconos. Railroad transportation also made competitive Monroe's farm products, lumber, block ice, and mineral products. Monroe once manufactured steam boilers, textiles, wooden products (barrels, clothespins, etc.), and glass. The railroads declined in the 1930s. Today there is some printing, publishing, trucking, and warehousing, as well as a retailing emphasis. Farms occupy only 7 percent of the area and have not been major producers since the decline of the dairy export market about 1900. The county had mushroomed since the 1960s as a desirable residential area, and home construction is strong.
 

 

Neighboring Counties:
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Cities and Towns:
- Barrett township  
- Chestnuthill township  
- Coolbaugh township  
- Delaware Water Gap borough Incorporated Area
- East Stroudsburg borough Incorporated Area
- Middle Smithfield township  
- Mount Pocono borough Incorporated Area
- Pocono township  
- Price township  
- Ross township  
- Stroud township  
- Stroudsburg (County Seat) borough Incorporated Area
- Tobyhanna township
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

 

 

 

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