Butztown, Pennsylvania

Butztown is an unincorporated community in Bethlehem Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, located just northeast of Bethlehem. The village is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area of the United States.

Butztown, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
House in Butztown, 2012
Butztown
Butztown
Coordinates: 40°39′11″N 75°19′41″W
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyNorthampton
TownshipBethlehem
Elevation
358 ft (109 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
18020
Area code(s)610 and 484
GNIS feature ID1213157[1]

Easton Avenue connects the village with the city and also with Highway 33 to the east. Butztown uses the Bethlehem ZIP code of 18020.[2]

History

In 1795, George Butz erected a large stone house in what is now the village named for his him. Eleven years later, in 1806, he built a grist mill nearby along Nancy Run creek, a tributary of the Lehigh River. Butz was a farmer by trade, but in addition to the grist mill, he operated a store and tavern, until going bankrupt around 1825. A number of other families located here, and from 1830 to 1805, the village was known as Butzville, at which point the current name came into use. The western portion of the village was absorbed by Bethlehem in the early 1900s during the city's expansion period.[3]

Sometime after Butz's bankruptcy, his saw mill was purchased by R.T. Schweitzer who converted it into the Butztown Hotel, for many years the village's main landmark. The hotel, on Easton Avenue, became the Keystone Pub in 2000.[4]

References
  1. "Butztown". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. "18020 ZIPCode Map Bethlehem Pennsylvania". HipCodes.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  3. Wright, James; Wright, Wright (1988). Place Names of Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Nazareth, Pennsylvania: J&L Wright. p. 32.
  4. "About-Keystone Pub & Grill". Retrieved 6 October 2017.
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