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Catasauqua, referred to colloquially as Catty, is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.Catasauqua's population was 6,518 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Allentown in 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.
In 1839, Catasauqua was the first community in the United States to launch anthracite iron manufacturing operations. The site of several of Catasauqua's first commercial and residential buildings, Biery's Port became "the commercial heart of a thriving town," according to historians at the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor." [3]
Catasauqua Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 63 contributing buildings in Catasauqua. The district includes 63 contributing buildings in Catasauqua.
1919 photograph of the George Taylor House in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. During the 1800s, George Taylor's former house passed through various hands and was eventually acquired by Wahneta Silk Company, which built a mill in front of the house around 1890. [16] Meanwhile, the property was left to deteriorate for many years.
Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on April 4, 1946, Miller grew up to become an All-American star of his Catasauqua High School basketball team, scoring forty-six of his team's sixty-six points and grabbing twenty rebounds during his team's 66–62 win over Steelton High in the 1964 Pennsylvania state playoffs at the Hershey Arena.
West Catasauqua is an unincorporated village in Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Once a port and station along the busy Lehigh Canal , it is colloquially known as West Catty . It is part of the Lehigh Valley , which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
The Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad was built in the 1850s to transport iron ore from local mines in Lehigh and later Berks County to furnaces along the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania. Originally owned by two iron companies, the railroad later became part of the Reading Company , and parts of it remain in operation today.
Fuller was born in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania on March 16, 1843, [3] the second-oldest son of James Wheeler Fuller, Sr. and Clarissa (Miller) Fuller. [4] [5] [6] He joined the military during the Civil War although he had not yet attained his majority. [7]