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History · Towamensing Trails

Half of Towamensing Trails’ homes were built after 1995

Most of Towamensing Trails was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: 2 old photos and papers and maps from 1922 on.

0on the National Register
2%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Towamensing Trails’ archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Towamensing Trails’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19226 editions of the USGS map, 1922 to 1999. Watch Towamensing Trails change.
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Start Towamensing Trails’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Towamensing Trails’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewLehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south o…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

Towamensing Trails on the map, 1922 to 1999

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Towamensing Trails. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Towamensing Trails on the 1922 USGS mapTowamensing Trails on the 1943 USGS mapTowamensing Trails on the 1960 USGS mapTowamensing Trails on the 1970 USGS mapTowamensing Trails on the 1983 USGS mapTowamensing Trails on the 1999 USGS map1922Lehighton sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Towamensing Trails.

The story so far

Towamensing Trails, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Towamensing Trails yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Towamensing Trails is a census-designated place (CDP) in Penn Forest Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Towamensing was once home to the Lenni Lenapes (Delaware) Indians. The land became part of Pennsylvania as a result of the infamous "Walking Purchase". The community is located directly south of Albrightsville in the southern part of the Poconos, bordered by Pennsylvania Route 903 on the northwest, separating it from Albrightsville, and by Pennsylvania Route 534 on the northeast. PA 903 leads southwest 12 miles (19 km) to Jim Thorpe, the Carbon County seat, and north 7 miles (11 km) to Interstate 80 near Blakeslee, while PA 534 leads south 9 mi…

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,292 in 2010, 2,317 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Towamensing Trails, decade by decade

Date unknown2 to date
Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola CreekDate?Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola …Lehigh Canal, Aquashicola Creek Aqueduct, Lehigh Canal at Aquashicola CreekDate?Lehigh Canal, Aquashicola Creek Aqueduct, Lehigh Cana…
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Lehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola Creek
Retake this viewLehigh Canal, Lock 20, 800 feet south of Aquashicola Creek

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Towamensing Trails’ page.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Towamensing Trails

Nobody well known was born in Towamensing Trails itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Alexander Mitchell PalmerAmerican politician · b. 1872
John J. DempseyAmerican politician · b. 1879
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Betty BreyAmerican swimmer · b. 1931
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Roland W. BrownAmerican paleobotanist · b. 1893
Brad KocherMajor League Baseball catcher · b. 1888
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Laura Van GilderAmerican racing cyclist · b. 1964
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Penn Forest TownshipIts storyDKidder TownshipIts storyDAlbrightsvilleIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Towamensing Trails’ history

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the Library of Congress (2) and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.