page_title: Green Pond Marsh
section_title: Colonial era to World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Green Pond Marsh / History / Colonial era to World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: Green Pond Marsh designated as Important Bird Area by Pennsylvania Audubon on March 30, 2014
context_page_description: Green Pond Marsh is the name of a wetlands area located in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania. The marsh is located approximately one-quarter mile south of U.S. Route 22 and east of Farmersville Road. It is bisected by Green Pond Road. The marsh is separated from Green Pond by Farmersville Road.
context_section_description: The Green Pond area was part of a 5000-acre (2023 hectare) tract owned by Leticia Aubrey, daughter of William Penn. A work published by the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society in 1937, "The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware", contains a map called the "Drylands Tract" showing a semicolon-shaped pond at the point where five parcels deeded to (from northeast corner of pond moving clockwise) John Buss, Jacob Bunstein, George Hartzell, Frederick King et al., and Conrad Kocher. At the time of the property transfer, Fritts stated that the settlers found "unbroken forest" around what was then named "Dry Lands Pond". This land, according to Fritts, "was formerly known as the 'Dry Lands,' which were then thought to be so irreclaimably arid and barren, that they would never be fit for human habitation but which are now among the best lands of the county." The year-round pond and its adjoining wetlands were the only body of surface water in that part of Bethlehem Township.
  According to research done by James Wright and Linda Wright in their book, "Place Names of Northampton County, Pennsylvania", the current name of the pond may come from either the green vegetation and trees surrounding it or from the green scum which sometimes forms on the [adjacent pond's] surface in dry conditions. The Wrights note that Green Pond itself was owned by descendants of William Penn until 1931, when it was transferred to "Mr. Snyder" from the Stuart family of Bath, England. The new owners, their descendants, and subsequent owners, all farmers, cultivated their properties through the end of World War II.
caption: Green Pond Marsh designated as Important Bird Area by Pennsylvania Audubon on March 30, 2014
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