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The following year, in 1910, pilot Glenn Curtiss took off in his plane, using 19th Street as his runway, and flew over the Allentown Fair in what was the first known heavier-than-air flight in the Lehigh Valley. [11] In 1920, the first auto race was held at the fair. [13]
In 1852, the Lehigh County Agricultural Society launched the first of what would become a long-running Lehigh Valley tradition, the annual Great Allentown Fair.The first fair, which was held from October 6 to 8 that year on land east of Allentown's Fourth Street, between Union and Walnut streets, [2] [3] was followed up the next year on a plot of land located between Fifth and Sixth streets ...
Mayfair Festival of the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts festival, [2] including visual arts, performing arts, garden arts, children's art, and art education, held annually in May on the campus of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Schnecksville is located in northern Lehigh County at (40.675741, -75.616260), [3] in the western part of North Whitehall Tow. Pennsylvania Route 309 runs through the middle of the community, leading south through Orefield 7 miles (11 km) to Interstate 78 on the west side of Allentown.
This event was first held in 1917 as Pennsylvania's State Fair. [2] The 2021 rendition of the Farm Show, however, was entirely virtual for the first time in its history due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] The Farm Show has over 10,000 competitive events spread over 35 departments.
Along with Northampton County to its east, the two counties combine to form the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, the third-largest metropolitan area of Pennsylvania with a population of 861,889 as of 2020. Lehigh County is one of the fastest-growing counties in Pennsylvania and the more highly populated of the two counties.
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County, in May 2010. The culture of Allentown, Pennsylvania dates back to the early 18th century settlement of the city and the surrounding Lehigh Valley, which was then part of the Province of Pennsylvania, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, by German immigrants almost ...
It was constructed in 1888 and 1889. The second station, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station (LVRR), was built in 1890 and was located directly west of the CNJ station. It served the patrons of the LVRR. Passenger rail service ended in Allentown during the 1960s, the stations became derelict and the Lehigh Valley station was torn down in the 1972.