Packer Mansion

Packer Mansion is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, dedicated 1971.

Susquehanna St. (US 209) at park near railroad station, Jim Thorpe

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Standing on the nearby hill is the home of Asa Packer, industrialist, philanthropist, congressman and founder of Lehigh University. The ornate mansion, built in 1860, has been carefully preserved with its original furnishings and is maintained as a memorial.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1847 · New Jersey (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Colton's New York (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Johnson's New Jersey (1865) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1871 · Plate F. East Central Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Schuylkill County. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Colton's New York (1859), 1859, covering the location of Packer Mansion, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's New York (1859), 1859, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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