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The Jim Thorpe Area School District is located in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It comprises the borough of Jim Thorpe and the townships of Penn Forest and South Kidder. It covers a total area of 137 square miles (350 km 2). According to 2000 federal census data, the school district serves a resident population of 11,428.
Carbon County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,749. [2] The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] The county borders Lehigh and Northampton counties in the state's Lehigh Valley region to its south, Monroe County to its east, Luzerne County to its north ...
History Founding Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps ...
The Old Mauch Chunk Historic District is a national historic district located at Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania . The district includes 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Jim Thorpe. It includes residential and commercial buildings in a number of popular architectural styles including Italianate.
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Jim Thorpe. James Francis Thorpe ( Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; [2] May 22 or 28, [3] 1887 – March 28, 1953) [4] was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
Area code (s) 570 and 272. Website. www .weatherlypa .gov. Weatherly is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Jim Thorpe and 28 miles (45 km) south of Wilkes-Barre . The population was 2,525 at the 2010 census.
The family of Jim Thorpe will accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his behalf. The award comes more than a century after he set Olympic records. Thorpe’s granddaughter, Lynn Hannon, and ...