East Bangor, PA

East Bangor sits in Northampton County’s Slate Belt, where Welsh immigrant Robert M. Jones helped start the quarrying industry after arriving in 1848. The borough’s name can sound like a directional afterthought, but the local story is really slate: quarries, roofing stone, school slates, and the workers and merchants who grew around them. East Bangor was part of the region’s quarry network, and it remains one of the small communities included in the Slate Belt. East Bangor is a Pennsylvania borough whose old industry is written into the names of the surrounding towns and roads.