EASTON

a city of Pennsylvania, in North amp ton co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, the Lehigh and Hudson and the Lack a wanna railroads, and on the Delaware and Lehigh rivers and the Delaware, Morris and Lehigh canals. It has excellent water power which furnishes power for its important industries. It has also good shipping facilities on the rivers. Its chief industries are the manufacture of railroad supplies, chemical products, hosiery, machine pumps, stoves, blast furnaces, woolen goods, etc. It also contains the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The city is connected by electric railways with Bethlehem and Allen town. It has a public library, several homes for women and children, and is the seat of Lafayette College. Pop. 1920, 33,813.