It is bounded north by East and West Pike Run, east by the Monongahela River, south by Greene County, and west by West Bethlehem. It is centrally distant from Washington eitghteen miles, it's greatest length, nine miles, breadth four and a half miles. The National Road crosses the river by a bridge in the northeast angle of this township. On this road are Fredricktown and Millsborough, but have been erected into seperate coroughs.
East Bethlehem has five stores, one distillery, and ten schools, employing three male and seven female teachers; the average monthly salary of the former is $36.66, and of the later $33.14. The number of scholars is four hundred and thirty, of which two hundred and twenty eight are males, and two hundred and two are females; the cost of tuition per month, $1.18 per scholar; amount levied for school purposes $1,792.39; received from the State appropriation, $175.89. Population in 1860, white, 1825; colored, 37, amounting to 1862.
August 25th, 1843, an alturation was made and confirmed by the court of the division line between West Pike Run and East Bethlehem townships.
November 30th, 1848, the court, upon petition and hearing the report of viewers, attached all that part of East Bethlehem to East Pike Run except West Brownsville, which is north of the National Road. At the August term, 1861, the line between East and West Bethlehem was changed, so as to include Thomas Martindale in East Bethlehem.
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