A man who poisoned his family with arsenic-laced coffee, an infamous public hanging and a judge who vanished without a trace are among the stories featured in Eerie Easton, a walking tour exploring the darker side of the city’s history.
The Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society is offering the two-hour evening tours through Sunday, Nov. 8, in downtown Easton’s historic district. Tickets cost $20 per person, with multiple departures available on select Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.
One of the cases involves Allen Laros, who poisoned members of his family in 1876. The tour also covers the 1833 hanging of Charles Getter, the mysterious disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater and an explosion aboard the Alfred Thomas steamboat…