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On this episode of What's in a Name?, Mike Flynn is back with another exploration of Lehigh Valley history, this time traveling to the village of Laurys Station in North Whitehall Township.

“Asbury Park does nothing, it simply amuses,” noted author Stephen Crane, who once lived in the New Jersey seaside amusement mecca. And in his 19th century heyday there were a lot of places, big and small, in an America that played that role. Among those that did so locally, from roughly 1891 to 1906, was Laury’s Island Park, sometimes known simply as Island Park. This should not be confused with a similarly named amusement park near Easton. It grew out of Laury’s Station, a stop on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and thrived at a time when Americans were having a few extra qu...