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Parryville is a borough in southern Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in the state's northeastern coal region, along Pohopoco Creek just north of where the creek meets the Lehigh River.

The first settler at Parryville was Peter Frantz, who arrived in 1780, and Leonard Beltz and Frederick Scheckler built a stone gristmill on Pohopoco Creek the following year.

Parryville takes its name from Daniel Parry, president of the Pine Forest Lumber Company, which made the growing village its headquarters in 1836; the name was first spelled Parrysville.

In 1836 the Beaver Meadow Railroad made Parryville a terminus and shipping point for Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company canal boats, but a freshet in January 1841 swept away the tracks, which were never rebuilt.

An anthracite blast furnace built at Parryville around 1855 by Dennis Bauman and his partners was later sold to the Carbon Iron Company, which converted it to steam power.

Parryville was incorporated as a borough early in 1875, with Dennis Bauman serving as its first chief burgess.

Parryville's population peaked at 723 in the 1900 census and has since shrunk to 416 in the 2020 census.

Parryville covers about 1.63 square miles at an elevation of about 450 feet above sea level, a few miles southeast of Lehighton and northwest of Palmerton.

Interstate 476, the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, passes through the western side of Parryville, and Pennsylvania Route 248 runs through the borough along the Lehigh River.

The 2000 census counted 189 households in Parryville, and recent Census Bureau surveys count about 227 housing units in the borough.