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Lackawanna County was formed in 1878 from part of Luzerne County. It is the youngest of Pennsylvania’s 67 Counties, and it  took nearly 40 years to win its independence. A new State Constitution passed in that year omitted an old provision that required a majority vote from citizens of the County that was about to be divided and replaced it with a rule that stated that a majority of the vote was required only from the citizens of the proposed new county. A vote on August 13th of 1878 approved the formation of the new county by a near 6 to 1 margin. Lackawanna County was officially chartered on the 21st of that year.
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NORTHAMPTON
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Lehigh County was formed from Northampton County in 1812, which was formed in 1752 from Bucks County, an original County. This area was part of Bucks County Pennsylvania, until Northampton County was founded in 1752. Easton, PA is the county seat. Counties taken from Northampton: Wayne (1798), Monroe (1836) border to the Northeast; Lehigh (1812) borders to the West; Northumberland (1772), Schuylkill (1811), Carbon (1843) border to the Northwest. |
