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Freemansburg is a borough in Northampton County in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, and the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long tributary of the Delaware River, flows through it.

The area that became Freemansburg was first settled by the Bachman family in the 1760s, and their old stone house, which also doubled as a tavern, still stands on the western edge of the borough.

Freemansburg takes its name from Jacob Freeman, who began operating a tavern in the settlement in the 1830s.

Moravians from neighboring Bethlehem were among Freemansburg's early settlers and built a series of mills, a distillery, and a tavern in the young community.

A bridge was first built across the Lehigh River at Freemansburg in 1811, the borough's first general store opened in 1825, and a public school was built in 1838.

Freemansburg was incorporated as a borough in 1856, when it separated from Bethlehem Township and swore in George Bachman as its first Chief Burgess.

Freemansburg had a population of 2,875 at the 2020 census, after growing quickly in recent decades — its population jumped 39% in the 2000s alone, from 1,897 in 2000 to 2,636 in 2010.

At the 2000 census Freemansburg had 687 households, and the average household size was 2.64 people.

Tiny Freemansburg is governed by a seven-member borough council — the same size as the council of neighboring Bethlehem, even though Bethlehem's population is nearly 4,000% larger.

Freemansburg covers just 0.75 square miles yet is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 at the 2020 census.