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The adjacent Old Allentown Cemetery is the city's second-oldest cemetery, located next to Allentown Cemetery Park. Burial site of Tilghman Good (1830–87), a two-term mayor of Allentown and commander of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, a division of the Union Army during the American Civil War. [3] Allentown Fairgrounds (1889)
The church in June 2013. Initially built as a log structure on its present-day site at 622 Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown in 1762, the original High German Evangelical Reformed Church building was replaced in 1773 with a simple brick structure, which was designed in a vernacular federal style and erected a few yards north of the first log church's location.
In 1836, the first Catholic parish in the Lehigh Valley, St. Bernard's, was erected in Easton in 1836. [5] In the Hazleton area, the first Catholic church was constructed in Beaver Meadows in 1847. [6] The first Catholic church in Allentown was Immaculate Conception, dedicated in 1857. [3]
The museum was located in the basement of the church, where the Liberty Bell, an iconic and globally-recognized symbol of America's independence and freedom, was hidden from the British Army by Allentown-area American patriots during the American Revolutionary War from September 1777 to June 1778.
Old Trinity Church: Philadelphia, Oxford Circle: 1711 Religious Church of England services first held on this site in 1698 in a log meeting house that had belonged to the Oxford Society of Friends. Merion Friends Meeting House: Merion Station: c. 1715: Religious One of the oldest Quaker meeting houses in America Newtown Square Friends Meeting House
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County Trout Hall, built in 1770 by James Allen, son of Allentown founder William Allen, is one of the oldest houses in Allentown; from 1867 to 1905, it served as the home of Muhlenberg College The 24-story PPL Building in Center City Allentown, the city's tallest building PPL Center ...
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Cathedral of Saint Catherine of Siena's Bishop Joseph McShea Building. Saint Catharine of Siena Parish was founded October 8, 1919, when Archbishop Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archdiocese of Philadelphia appointed the Reverend John C. Phelan as pastor of a new church in the west end of Allentown.