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