Editing Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania (section)

===18th century===
Beaver Meadows began as a recognizable and describable landmar, a meadow where beaver dams dotted the landscape, along a well-known Amerindian Trail, known as the "Warriors' Path",<ref name=BR>{{cite book|ref={{harvid|Brenckman|History of Carbon County}}|title=HISTORY OF CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA ''Also Containing a Separate Account of the Several Boroughs and Townships in the County''|date=1884|author=Fred Brenckman, Official Commonwealth Historian|edition=2nd (1913)|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcarbonc00inbren|publisher=J. Nungesser, Harrisburg PA - Archive.org project 1913 ed., pdf e-reprint|pages=<!-- ca. or before, p.-271 -627-->}}</ref> and later as well-known as the trail used by Moravian Missionaries traveling between [[Berwick, PA|Berwick]] and [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania|Bethlehem]], then became known as a toll gate/rest stop along the [[Lehigh and Susquehanna Turnpike]], a [[bridle trail]] and [[wagon road]] chartered in 1804 from Jean's Run near the mouth of [[Nesquehoning Creek]] on the [[Lehigh River]] in the hamlet and [[township (Pennsylvania)|township]] of [[Lausanne Landing|Lausanne]] about nine miles south on the other side of [[Broad Mountain (Lehigh Valley)|Broad Mountain]].

In the 1790s, a large tract of land was registered in the name of tbdl and a few farm houses dotted the valley until in 1812, anthracite coal was discovered in the vicinity of Junedale,<ref name=BR/> a bedroom suburb neighborhood a {{convert|1.33|mi}}<ref>Ruler tool measurement, [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Beaver+Meadows,+PA/@40.9265909,-75.9152242,15.92z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x89c5bb557bf40011:0xf8a9824cb359e0!2sMcAdoo,+PA+18237!3b1!8m2!3d40.9015796!4d-75.9913141!3m4!1s0x89c5a5770cfe094b:0x99e2fc40247a99ed!8m2!3d40.9281374!4d-75.9146261 GoogleMaps]</ref> west of Beaver Meadows proper.

In 1752, the lands of Carbon County and Beaver Meadows area were part of [[Northampton County, Pennsylvania|Northampton County]], one of the three original counties of Pennsylvania, a county as big as New Jersey.<ref name=BM>Hazleton, PA Plain Speaker, 3 September 3, 1937 ''History of Beaver Meadow, Carbon Co., Pa'' [http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/BeaverMeadows/TownshipHistories/HazletonPlainSpeaker.htm Speaker Timeline]</ref> the 1790s Warrior's Path was widened into a cart road some called the Lausanne-Nescopeck Road as Moravians increased their connections with the St. John's settlement in the Nescopeck Creek valley.

In 1804, business interests desiring to ship timber to energy-hungry settlements raised money for a [[wagon road]] that could support timber sledges in winter snows, and the [[Lehigh and Susquehanna Turnpike]] was chartered, which is now closely followed by [[Pennsylvania Route 93]] through the borough from over [[Broad Mountain (Lehigh Valley)|Broad Mountain]] at [[Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania|Nesquehoning]], leading northwest {{Convert|4|mi|0}} to [[Hazleton, Pennsylvania|Hazleton]] and southeast {{convert|9|mi|0}} to [[U.S. Route 209]] in Nesquehoning. [[Weatherly, Pennsylvania|Weatherly]] is {{convert|4|mi|0}} to the east via Spring Mountain Road, where Beaver Creek ends in confluence with [[Hazel Creek (Lehigh River)|Hazel Creek]] begetting [[Black Creek (Lehigh River)|Black Creek]].