Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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 The Amptennian 1 ) 2 [inscription on marker] HOCKENDAUQUA Indian town of the noted chiefs Lappawinzo and Tishcohan who treated with the Penn Proprietors of Pennsylvania in the famous walking purchase was located in the present Northampton upon the banks of the Lehigh River, three-fourth of a mile to the Northwest of this marker the fleet-footed youth, Edward Marshall and his associates of a walk of a day and half, September 19-20. 1737, crossed Hocken-dauqua Creek a half mile below this point on the stream and slept the first night in the woods a half mile from the Indian town. 6 l The Survey line of the purchase was later in 1737, one and three-tenth mile to the East. (Pennsylvania Historical Commission)

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THE 1926 AMPTENN1AN A RECORD OF HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS NORTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL NORTHAMPTON. PENNSYLVANIA NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX

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The Amptennian Foreword IMPRESSED with a desire to commemorate the “Walking Purchase” and early Indian life in our vicinity, we, the Staff of The 1926 Amptennian, have in this book hoped to renew the spirit of the first inhabitants of Northampton. We, encouraged by the spirit of the class of '26, have endeavored to publish a book, rich not only with scholarship, but also with personality; worthy not for the fiber alone, not for the finish alone, but for both the fiber and finish. With these things in mind we hope that we have advanced a few steps further in the way of improvement on the editions of former years. May you, our readers, as you turn from page to page of our annual, feel that our highest aims for a Bigger and Better Amptennian have been realized.