Packer Mansion
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Gosffo
N 40° 51.793 W 075° 44.275
18T E 437811 N 4523835
Worth $54 million at his death in 1879!!!!!
Waymark Code: WMTPD
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2006
Views: 35
Marker Text:
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.
Asa Packer was a carpenter apprentice, working here in Pa. and NY. He became a farmer, switched to captaining a coal boat on the Lehigh Canal, to store owner, boat yard operating (making canal boats) to coal mining, and then to railroading. So if you need $54 million dollars that how you can make it!!
Marker Name: Packer Mansion
County: Carbon
Date Dedicated: 05/14/1971
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 209 at park near railroad station, Jim Thorpe
Category: Professions & Vocations, Buildings, Mansions & Manors
Website: [Web Link]
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