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Prior to its construction, the only bridges connecting Center City Allentown and South Allentown were Lehigh Street and the 8th Street bridges, although the single-lane 19th century stone arch Schreibers Bridge (1828, rehabilitated in 1920) provided west end access to southwest Allentown via Lehigh Parkway East. Original bridges were metal ...
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 ...
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 ...
Whitestone, Devon, a village in the United Kingdom; Whitestone, Ontario, a township in Canada and a community within the township; Whitestone, Queens, a neighborhood in New York City; Whitestone, Warwickshire, a suburb of Nuneaton, a town in the United Kingdom; Whitestone, a statistical area surrounding Te Anau in New Zealand
Old Allentown now is also the home of the United Way's Allentown Promise Neighborhood initiative, modeled on the work of Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone. The Allentown Promise Neighborhood takes a systems approach to improving the academic performance and the college and career readiness of the children in its nine block area.
Whitehall Township is in eastern Lehigh County on the north side of the city of Allentown. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 12.9 square miles (33.3 km 2 ), of which 12.6 square miles (32.6 km 2 ) are land and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km 2 ), or 2.22%, are water. [ 2 ]
Whitestone offered a leasing amount of $10,000 a month for the county’s use of the dock, which Pitcher said was the market rate. These terms were presented to the County Council in executive ...
Lehigh Valley Transit Company's transfer point at 8th and Hamilton Streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1914 Lehigh Valley Transit Trolley #304 in 1920 A 1920 postcard of a Lehigh Valley Transit's Liberty Bell Trolley crossing the present-day Albertus L. Meyers Bridge in Allentown in 1920