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Founded in 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia, Pull-A-Part is the nation’s fastest growing self-service used auto parts retailer, [3] and recycler in the United States.. Beginning as a scrap metal recycling program, Pull-A-Part opened its first vehicle salvage and recycling yard in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998.
Allentown and Auburn Railroad's 206 train, an EMC Winton-engined switcher used to pull tourist trains and the occasional freight train. The Allentown and Auburn Railroad dates back to 1853 when a charter was issued to the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company and the Central Railroad of New Jersey for the Allentown Railroad, a railroad that was to run from Allentown west to the Philadelphia and ...
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area ...
In 1984, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) proposed extending US 222 from I-78/PA 309 to Center City Allentown, where it would end at PA 145. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) rejected extending US 222 into Allentown, and PA 222 was instead designated to run between I-78/PA 309 ...
The global headquarters of Air Products, an $8.8 billion S&P 500 company headquartered outside Allentown in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, March 2014 The corporate headquarters of PPL Corporation, a $7.6 billion S&P 500 company in Center City Allentown, January 2007 Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem was the second largest steel manufacturer in the United States and one of the Lehigh Valley's largest ...
Hess's, originally known as Hess Brothers, was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.The company was founded a single store in 1897, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its commercial peak in the late 1980s.
Built in 1929, Tilghman Street Bridge, which crosses the Lehigh River in Allentown's east-side, is the oldest bridge on SR 1002. A 1939 map of Tilghman Street. When the state began taking over Pennsylvania highways following passage of the Sproul Road Bill, signed May 31, 1911, [5] this system did not include the direct Allentown to Harrisburg route to which Interstate 78 belonged.
It is a suburb of Allentown and is part of the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. South Whitehall Township borders Allentown to its east and is 59.3 miles (95.4 km) northwest of Philadelphia, and 94.5 miles (152.1 km) west of New York City. [4]