EAST BRIDGEWATER Two summers ago, Dale Julius visited a framing business in Hanover with one historical document and left with two.
The chairman of the East Bridgewater Historical Commission was getting a Civil War poster a new frame at the Frame Center and a staff member said it s not unusual to find additional photos and documents hidden behind old framed images.
They discovered a wedding announcement for an Easton couple married in the 1800s in a frame behind the poster. It s a treasure that s been sitting here, Julius said. It was a neat surprise to find that.
The wedding certificate was for George H. DeWitt and Lucy E. Randall, who married Aug. 17, 1875.
Largely forgotten Black burial ground suggests remains lie under Easton park
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
Nesquehoning Street Park is seen Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, at 325 W. Nesquehoning St. in Easton. It was one of seven so-called pocket parks citywide studied under a municipal contract by Omnes Landscape Architecture, Planning & Art with an eye toward making improvements to the properties.Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com
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An effort to improve seven so-called pocket parks around Easton has rediscovered a remnant from our segregationist past.
One of the properties being studied, Nesquehoning Street Park on South Side, appears to have been created atop a burial ground for Black people, according to park improvement planners from Easton-based Omnes Landscape Architecture, Planning & Art.