Green Pond Marsh
The marsh is located approximately one-quarter mile (0.4 km) south of U.S. Route 22 (the Lehigh Valley Thruway) and east of Farmersville Road.
The marsh is separated from Green Pond (a permanent body of water approximately 5.1 acres [2.06 hectares] in area) by Farmersville Road.
The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware, a Native American people, lived in the eastern Pennsylvania area in the vicinity of today's Green Pond.
On the farm of Mr. Leonard Schweitzer, there is an old grave, which tradition says was that of a Delaware chief, and the finding of a tomahawk in the ground near it, a few years since, seems to strengthen belief in the truth of the legend.
"[3] Barry Kresge, a member of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, has found artifacts of the Lenni Lenape in the immediate area of Green Pond Marsh since 1965.
An object he described to a reporter from the Express-Times newspaper as a portion of a semi-lunar knife used by native women to clean fish was one of many items he has found in the area.
A work published by the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society in 1937, "The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware", contains a map called the "Drylands Tract" showing a semicolon-shaped pond at the point where five parcels deeded to (from northeast corner of pond moving clockwise) John Buss, Jacob Bunstein, George Hartzell, Frederick King et al., and Conrad Kocher.
The Wrights note that Green Pond itself was owned by descendants of William Penn until 1931, when it was transferred to "Mr. Snyder" from the Stuart family of Bath, England.
The committee approved the designation based on the following three criteria: A portion of a sketch plan created by the engineering firm of Pennoni Associates and dated July 7, 2014 includes a box summarizing the Northampton County soil report for the parcel.
[16] A search of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' online map viewer, when switched to "geology" view, indicated on February 8, 2015 that there were 13 sinkholes and 82 surface depressions within a one-half mile radius of the clicked marker.
[17] In a 2005 information sheet on sinkholes, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources states that "[s]inkhole occurrences will likely become more frequent as population encroaches upon karst areas traditionally used for farmland".
Traditions of America's principals, Timothy R. McCarthy, Nathan Jameson, and David Biddison[20] have built or are building other Traditions of America-branded developments in Pennsylvania, including in the communities of Bethlehem ("Bridle Path" and "Hanover"), Center Valley ("Saucon Valley"), Lititz ("Lititz" and "Mount Joy"), Mechanicsburg ("Silver Spring"), State College ("Liberty Hill"), Pittsburgh ("Sewickley Ridge"), and Cranberry Township ("Liberty Hills").
[24] It informed readers that the Army Corps of Engineers and staff from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection visited the site on November 12, 2014 to do a wetlands survey.
