East Mauch Chunk, organized as a Pennsylvania township when a part of 19th century Northampton County, Pennsylvania, was originally settled in the 1820s as a cross river bedroom community from both vanished Lausanne Landing and the explosively growing Mauch Chunk which it served as an upscale bedroom community, where company managers and officers were known to build homes, along with the housing built in what is known as upper Mauch Chunk. The community became a township in [TBDL: date and County] and was later organized [TBDL: 1850s? Cite History of Carbon County] as a formerly independent borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.