“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”
~ Aristotle
~ 384-322 B.C.
I spotted the sweetest sight of summer – a beautiful white-tailed deer
fawn – looking up into the summer sky on a late June afternoon on the grounds
of Boulton in Henry’s Woods at Jacobsburg State Park, which spans between Wind
Gap and Nazareth, Pennsylvania. This fawn’s twin was grazing nearby.
Boulton was 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.
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/.
