“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no
winter in our year!”
~ Thomas
Wentworth Higginson
~1823-1911
~ from
“April Days”
~ 1861
A barn nestled in mid-March snow paints a picturesque late winter scene
in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State Park, which spans between Wind Gap and
Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
The barn is part of Boulton, an early American industrial community in
the heart of the Jacobsburg National Historic District – once the site where
the famous Henry Rifle was made – which lies almost entirely in the park. Henry’s Woods
offers very scenic hikes and the rest of the center grounds have multi-use
trails.
The
barn was built by William Henry III circa 1821 to house grain and livestock.
Jacobsburg
State Park offers environmental education programs from the preschool
environmental awareness programs to high school level environmental problem
solving programs, historical programs, teacher workshops and public
interpretive programs.
The
park surrounds the Bushkill Creek.
The
original land for the center was purchased by the Department of Forests and
Waters from the City of Easton in 1959. In 1969, additional land was purchased
using funds from Project 70. This brought the total land area of the center to
its present size of 1,168 acres.
For
more information on the Henry family visit the Jacobsburg Historical Society’s
website at http://www.jacobsburghistory.com/.
