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The Lehigh Valley (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ /) is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania.It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. [1]
The Old Allentown Historic District was established on September 6, 1978, by City Ordinance #12314 and was certified by the Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission on September 26, 1978. The neighborhood was laid out in the original plan for Allentown by order of William Allen in 1762, and developed as Allentown grew northward and ...
The region includes Allentown, the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania, the neighboring eastern Pennsylvania cities of Bethlehem and Easton, and its more rural suburbs. The region was once a hub for American heavy manufacturing. Its economy is now more diverse, and it has one of the state's fastest growing populations.
Its county seat is Allentown, the state's third-largest city after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. [2] 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 ...
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 ...
South Whitehall Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.The township's population was 19,180 at the 2010 census. [2] 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.
Lehigh County: 077: Allentown: 1812: Parts of Northampton County: Lehigh River, from the Lenape Lechewuekink, "where there are forks". 377,754: 349 sq mi (904 km 2) Luzerne County: 079: Wilkes-Barre: 1786: Parts of Northumberland County: Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne, French ambassador to the U.S. who aided republican causes 327,388: 907 ...
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 ]