Easton sits at the confluence of the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers on Pennsylvania's eastern border with New Jersey. The town is best known as the home of the Crayola Experience (formerly the Crayola Factory), where families can mould their own crayons and work their way through four floors of hands-on art. The same building — Two Rivers Landing — also houses the underrated National Canal Museum, which runs the only mule-drawn canal boat ride in the country down at Hugh Moore Park.
The revitalized downtown has a growing restaurant and arts scene centred around Centre Square, where the Declaration of Independence was first publicly read to the citizens of Easton on 8 July 1776 — one of only three such readings in the original colonies. The square's farmers' market has been operating continuously since 1752, making it the oldest in the United States.
On the hill at the north end of town, Lafayette College — founded in 1826 and named after the Marquis who visited that year — gives Easton its student energy. Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, "The Easton Assassin," is honoured by a statue on the Lehigh riverfront boardwalk, a reminder that the town's claim on the national imagination is bigger than its population of 27,000 might suggest.