Editing Easton, Pennsylvania (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Wrau-easton-pa.jpg|right|thumb|Easton, photographed by [[William H. Rau]], {{Circa|1896}}]]
[[File:Crayola Experience in Easton, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|[[Crayola Experience]] in downtown Easton in November 2019]]
On August 22, 1751, [[Thomas Penn]], the son of [[William Penn]], the colony's founder and original proprietor married [[Lady Juliana Fermor Penn|Juliana Fermor]]. On September 8, 1751, a letter was sent to [[James Hamilton (Pennsylvania politician)|Colonial Governor James Hamilton]] by Penn requesting that a new town on the confluence of the [[Lehigh River|Lehigh]] and [[Delaware|Delaware Rivers]] be named Easton and that it be in a new county called [[Northampton County, Pennsylvania|Northampton]].<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2004-06-07-3536395-story.html |title = English estate is what Easton and Northampton County were named for |date = June 7, 2004|access-date = 2021-10-25}}</ref> In 1752, as requested, the city was named in honor of [[Lady Juliana Fermor Penn|Lady Juliana's]] family estate, the [[Easton Neston]]. The county was named after the estate's location, which was in the south of [[Northamptonshire]], England.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.robgrow.com/pomfrethistory.html |title = The History of Easton and The Pomfret Club |access-date = 2021-10-25}}</ref>