Editing Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Stroudsburg was laid out by Colonel Jacob Stroud in 1799. Stroud's family founded Stroudsburg in the mid-1700s, and the town was incorporated on February 5, 1815.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.monroehistorical.org/articles_files/110111_stbgestbg.html|title=Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg founded in the 1730s|publisher=Monroe County Historical Association|accessdate=11 July 2024}}</ref>

Stroudsburg was the location of the [[lynching of Richard Puryear]] in March 1894. A Black railroad worker accused of murdering a white storekeeper, Puryear was lynched by a mostly white mob after he escaped from prison. Despite a grand jury investigation, no one was charged or convicted for Puryear's murder.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1894-03-16 |title=He Broke Jail to be Lynched |pages=1 |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107018839/he-broke-jail-to-be-lynched/ |access-date=2022-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pfeifer |first=Michael J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CR0TMCIfE14C |title=Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-252-09465-1 |location=Urbana |pages=301 |language=en |oclc=800721338}}</ref>

The [[Academy Hill Historic District (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)|Academy Hill Historic District]], [[Kitson Woolen Mill]], [[Monroe County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Monroe County Courthouse]], and [[Stroud Mansion]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>