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Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum

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The Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum (63 acres) is an arboretum owned by Muhlenberg College and located at 1581 Bushkill Center Road, Bath, Pennsylvania. The arboretum is open daily without charge. The arboretum was established more than 40 years ago by Dr. Lee and Virginia Graver, who cultivated wildflowers, ferns, rhododendrons, and native and rare trees, including more than 150 conifer species. The Gravers donated their property to Muhlenberg College in 1994. Principal plant collections of the Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum include: Conifers - Abies, Cedrus, Chamaecyparis, Cupressus, Juniperus, Larix, Metasequoia, Picea, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, Sequoiadendron, Taxodium, Thuja, Tsuga, and others. Wetland Plants - obligate (Alisma subcordatum, Bidens cernua, Brasenia schreberi, Chelone glabra, Cicuta maculata, Gentianopsis crinita, Juncus effusus, Leersia oryzoides, Ludwigia palustris, Lycopus americanus, Micranthes pensylvanica, Myosotis scorpioides, Persicaria hydropiper, Persicaria sagittata, Potamogeton sp., Sagittaria latifolia, Symplocarpus foetidus, Taxodium distichum, Typha latifolia; and facultative (Amelanchier arborea, Arisaema triphyllum, Betula alleghaniensis, Bidens comosa, Boehmeria cylindrica, Carex sp., Carpinus caroliniana, Echinocystis lobata, Eleocharis sp., Eupatorium perfoliatum, Eutrochium maculatum, Hamamelis virginiana, Impatiens capensis, Larix laricina, Lindera benzoin, Onoclea sensibilis, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Osmunda claytoniana, Ranunculus sp., Pilea pumila, Sambucus canadensis, Smilax herbacea, Thuja occidentalis, Toxicodendron radicans, Veratrum viride, and Zizia aurea).

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Bushkill Center Road, Bushkill Township

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Northampton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,951. Its county seat is Easton. The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bucks County. Its namesake was the county of Northamptonshire in England, and the county seat of Easton was named for Easton Neston, a country house in Northamptonshire. Northampton County and Lehigh County to its west combine to form the eastern Pennsylvania region known as the Lehigh Valley; Lehigh County, with a population of 374,557 as of the 2020 U.S. census, is the more highly populated of the two counties. Both counties are part of the Philadelphia media market, the fourth-largest in the nation. Northampton County has historically been a national leader in heavy manufacturing, especially of cement, steel, and other industrial products. Atlas Portland Cement Company, the world's largest cement manufacturer from 1895 until 1982, was based in Northampton in the county. Bethlehem Steel, the world's second-largest manufacturer of steel for most of the 20th century, was based in Bethlehem, the county's most populous city, prior to its dissolution in 2003. Northampton County borders Carbon County and the Poconos to its north, Lehigh County to its west, Bucks County to its south, and the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east. The Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River, flows through the county.