Editing Lausanne Township, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
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Lausanne Township was originally as part of the original [[Northampton County, Pennsylvania|Northampton County]] in the ''''Towamensing District'''', a part of the unorganized wilderness above [[Blue Mountain (Pennsylvania)|Blue Mountain]].  The Towamensing District was then reorganized in 1808 when the section of the county above Blue Mountain was set out as individual townships, and [[Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania|Schuylkill County]] was created:
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1.      1752 Northampton County was erected out of Bucks County.  At that time, all of Northampton north of the Blue Mountains was known as the Towamensing District, “Towamensing” being an Indian word for “wilderness”.   The Moravians, who established the first white settlement, knew the region north of the mountains as “St. Anthony's Wilderness”.
<br/>2.       1768 The district was divided into Towamensing Twp. on the east bank of the Lehigh River and Penn Twp. on the west bank. 
<br/>3.      1808 Lausanne Twp. was erected out of the upper section of Penn Twp.  Penn was further divided into East and West Penn, with West Penn being in newly formed Schuylkill County. 
<br/>4.      1818 Mauch Chunk founded.  Josiah White and Erskine Hazard travel from Philadelphia up into the Lehigh River wilderness with a crew of 18 men from White's wire rope factory at the falls of the Schuylkill River to begin work on river improvements.  White and Hazard had formed the Lehigh Coal Co. and the Lehigh Navigation Co., the first to mine the coal, the second to get it to market.  Work began on the river at the mouth of the Mauch Chunk Creek on the Lehigh, thus founding the town.  These two companies would merge into the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. in a few years. 
<br/>5.      1827 On August 23, Mauch Chunk Twp. was formed out of the northern part of E. Penn Twp. and a small section of southern Lausanne Twp.  Mauch Chunk Twp. included the villages that would later be the boroughs of Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill and Nesquehoning.  Lansford also lay within the Twp., but at the time of its formation there was no village of Lansford. 
|author=Jack Sterling
|publication=Ancestry.com's: {{plain link|1=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carbdat/boro&twp.htm|2=Carbon County Boroughs and Townships}}<ref name=Sterling>Jack Sterling, 2001, Ancestry.com, {{plain link|1=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carbdat/boro&twp.htm|2=Carbon County Boroughs and Townships}}</ref>
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"And a small section of southern Lausanne Twp." was to set a pattern.  The township remained a nurturing organizational government through a number of additional divisions, children split off in the past to attain greater success and populations with ever diminished territory each time it suffered a division. 
 
;1842:Banks Township erected from the Northwestern part of Lausanne.<ref name=Sterling/>
;1843:'''Carbon County''' created from Northern Northampton and Monroe Counties.<ref name=Sterling/>
;1847:Packer Township set off from Lausanne.<ref name=Sterling/>
;1863:[[Weatherly, PA|Weatherly]] set off from Lausanne at this time, and becomes the third borough in the county after Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk.<ref name=Sterling/>
;1875:[[Lehigh Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania|Lehigh Township]] made up of lands along the west bank of the Lehigh River is set off from Lausanne from [[Glen Onoko]] north to the Luzerne County line, leaving a small rump community. Both are very rural.<ref name=Sterling/>

Today, the township is a narrow strip too small to effectively grow or split, wedged against the Luzerne-Carbon County border in rough country.