Editing Lausanne Township, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The original population of Lausanne Landing was quite variable limited to a handful of year-round settlers and varying groups of itinerant workmen from expeditions sent to log, mine, or build boats. The current town population was 237 at the 2010 census.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/0600000US4202541888| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Lausanne township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=April 6, 2015| archive-url=https://archive.today/20150406153745/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/0600000US4202541888| archive-date=April 6, 2015| url-status=dead}}</ref> The township was named after [[Lausanne]], in Switzerland<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n181 182]}}</ref> and the bowl shaped valley near its first settlement at [[Lausanne Landing]] has often been called the Switzerland of America.