“Every path has its puddle.”
~ English proverb
A puddle is all that remains of the morning
rain as the afternoon sun begins to filter through the trees on what turned out
to be a beautiful summer day June 27, 2022 in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State
Park.
Every path has its puddle ~ don’t let a
setback get you down!
Summer, my most favorite of seasons, is
gorgeous at Jacobsburg, which spans between Wind Gap and Nazareth,
Pennsylvania.
The name Henry’s Woods is a nod to the Henry
family, as Boulton, an early American industrial community, is in the heart of
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.
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/.
