History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill ...

66 Hi3T0i;r of Northampton county.
Bellevi/lj, consisting of five dwellings and one taveri, %
{Varihhurg, on the road from Euston to tlie Wini]
Gap, eight miles iYom the former, and four from the lat-
ter, consists of eiglit dwellings, one store and several
mechanics' shops. Near it is a Lutheran German ]{e<
formed church, on the left l)ank of the Bushkill creek,
Johnsoiiville, contiguous to Ward.sburg, on the saiii-.
road, consists of fourteen dwellings and one tavern.
The po])uUition of the township, in 1820, was 1.137,
in 1830, 1,L'S5 ; in 1840, 1,508. Taxables, in 1844, 37]
County rates and levies, ^2:3,353; real estate, hoi-:^es [iii'i
cattle, !^31 3,445 ;
amount of state tax, ^707,90.
Lehigh toiunship is bounded on the north, by Carbor.
county; on thi; east, by Moore township; on the ioulh
by Allen township ; on the west, by the Lebig(> river
which seperates it from Lehigh county. The surface is
partly hilly and partly level; soil, limestone and x great
proportion gravel, but considerably improved. As thu
IJiue mountain fornLs the nortiiern boundry, and ih
Lehigh entering it on the west of that part, as well