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Pike County, Pennsylvania
Pike County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Milford
Year Organized: 1814
Square Miles: 547 |
Court House: 506 Broad Street
County Courthouse
Milford, PA 18337-1539
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for General Zebulon Pike.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 26, 1814, from part
of Wayne County and named for General Zebulon Pike. Milford, the county seat,
was incorporated as a borough on December 25, 1874, and probably named for
Milford Haven in Wales.
Originally a remote section of Bucks County, the land that became Pike was first
settled about 1700. Purchases from the Indians in 1749 and 1768 legitimized
settlement, and an agreement with Connecticut in 1786 confirmed Pennsylvania's
authority. Violence with Native Americans lasted through the Revolution. Milford
was settled in 1796 and just kept growing. Millwrights and ferry masters were
early settlers. Canals, beginning in 1827, made Pike a connecting point with New
York, and an aqueduct was built to carry canal boats over the Delaware.
Railroads arrived in 1848, and lumber was rafted out to Easton and Trenton. A
tanning industry once flourished, and bluestone quarries were productive. The
population grew with the lumbering industry, but by 1914 the stands of trees
were exhausted. Few stayed on. Although rural, Pike is not a significant farming
area. The summer tourist population, a feature for over a century, is often ten
times the permanent population. Farms occupy only 1½ percent of the land. Many
national leaders spent creative periods secluded in Pike: Charles Peirce, Dan
Beard, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Thomas Edison, Zane Grey, and
Horace Greeley, for example.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Bushkill |
township |
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- Delaware |
township |
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- Dingman |
township |
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- Greene |
township |
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- Lackawaxen |
township |
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- Matamoras |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Milford
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Paupack |
township |
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- Shohola |
township |
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- Westfall |
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!"
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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,
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