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Bath is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, that was established in 1728 as a Scotch-Irish settlement — the first settlement by white people in the Forks of the Delaware River, before the American Revolution.

Bath was named for Bath in Somerset, England, by Margaret DeLancey, and the 247 acres at its core were purchased and surveyed for founder Daniel Craig on March 3, 1737.

Bath was incorporated as a borough on February 1, 1856, and its motto today is 'History, Nestled with Friendship.'

During the French and Indian War, a blockhouse called Fort Ralston, or Brown's Fort, was built southeast of Bath in 1755, and its ruins can still be seen near Franks Corner.

Bath became a center of the Lehigh Valley cement industry in the early 1900s; the Keystone Cement Company still operates there today, is a major local employer, and holds the largest reserve of limestone deposits in the Lehigh Valley cement district.

Bath had about 2,800 residents at the 2020 census, up from 2,693 in 2010, when the borough counted 1,048 households.

Bath's four recreational areas are Volunteer Firefighter's Park, Keystone Park, Ciff Cowling Field, and Carl L. Rehrig Park, and a farmers market runs beside the American Legion post on Route 329 on Friday afternoons from May through September.

The Daniel Steckel House, built in 1804 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, was the home of Daniel Steckel, a prominent Bath resident who lived to be 101 years old.

Muhlenberg College's Graver Arboretum, featuring native and rare trees, is located in Bath and is free to visit.

Bath's George Wolf Elementary School is named for George Wolf, a local resident who served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1835 and is known as the father of the state's free public school system for championing the Free School Act of 1834.