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Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is a city in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The city has a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census. It is the fastest-growing major city in Pennsylvania and the state’s third largest city, behind Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It is the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th most populated metropolitan area in the U.S. as of 2020. Allentown was founded in 1762 and is the county seat of Lehigh County.
Located on the Lehigh River, Allentown is the largest of three adjacent cities (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton) in Lehigh and Northampton counties that join with Carbon County in Pennsylvania’s Coal Region and Warren County in northwest New Jersey to form the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area. Allentown is approximately 52 miles (84 km) north-northwest of Philadelphia and 92 miles (148 km) west of New York City.
Lat: 40.42757
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In the early 1700s, the land now occupied by the city of Allentown and Lehigh County was a wilderness of scrub oak where Native American Lenape tribes fished for trout and hunted for deer, grouse, and other game. In 1736, a large area to the north of Philadelphia, embracing the present site of Allentown and what is now Lehigh County, was deeded by 23 chiefs of the five great Native American nations to three sons of William Penn: John, Thomas, and Richard Penn. The price for this tract included shoes and buckles, hats, shirts, knives, scissors, combs, needles, looking glasses, rum, and pipes.
The land that ultimately became Allentown was part of a 5,000-acre (20 km) plot William Allen purchased on September 10, 1735 from his business partner Joseph Turner, who was assigned the warrant to the land by Thomas Penn on May 18, 1732. The land was originally surveyed on November 23, 1736. A subsequent survey done in 1753 for a road from Easton to Reading shows the location of a log house owned by Allen, situated near the western bank of Jordan Creek, which was believed to have been built around 1740. Used primarily as a hunting and fishing lodge, Allen also used the log house to entertain prominent guests, including his brother-in-law James Hamilton and colonial Pennsylvania governor John Penn.
The geographic area that today comprises Center City Allentown was initially laid out as Northampton Town in 1762 by William Allen, a wealthy shipping merchant, former mayor of the city of Philadelphia and then chief justice of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. It is likely that a certain amount of rivalry among the Penns prompted Allen to decide to start a town of his own in 1762.
Ten years before, in 1752, Northampton and Berks counties had formed, each with a county seat, Easton and Reading, respectively. In 1763, the year after Allentown’s founding, an effort was made to move the county seat from Easton to Allentown. William Allen lent his influence as colonial Pennsylvania’s chief justice and as son-in-law of Andrew Hamilton. The influence of the Penns, however, prevailed, and Easton was retained as the county seat of the vast area that had been opened up as part of the Walking Purchase.
The original plan for the town, detailed in archives now housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, comprised 42 city blocks and 756 lots, most 60 feet (18 m) in width and 230 feet (70 m) in depth. The town was located between present-day Fourth and Tenth Streets, and Union and Liberty Streets. Many streets on the original plan were named for Allen’s children, including Margaret (present-day Fifth Street), William (now Sixth), James (now Eighth), Ann (now Ninth) and John (now Walnut). Allen Street (now Seventh) was named for Allen himself and was the city’s main thoroughfare. Hamilton Street was named for James Hamilton. Gordon Street was named for Sir Patrick Gordon, the deputy governor of Colonial Pennsylvania from 1726 to 1736. Chew Street was named for Benjamin Chew, and Turner Street was named for Allen’s business partner Joseph Turner.
Allen hoped that Northampton Town would displace Easton as the seat of Northampton County and also become a commercial center due to its location along the Lehigh River and proximity to Philadelphia. Allen gave the property to his son James in 1767. Three years later, in 1770, James built a summer residence, Trout Hall, in the new town near the site of his father’s former hunting lodge.
On March 18, 1811, the town was formally incorporated as the borough of Northampton Town. On March 6, 1812, Lehigh County was formed from the western half of Northampton County, and Northampton Town was selected as the county seat. The town was officially renamed Allentown on April 16, 1838 after years of popular usage by that name, and Allentown was formally incorporated as a city on March 12, 1867.
Some of the first resistance to British colonialism, which led ultimately to the American Revolutionary War, began in and around present day Allentown. On December 21, 1774, a Committee of Observation for Northampton County (Allentown) was formed by local American patriots. At the time, there were 54 homes in Northampton Town with around 330 residents. Immediately following the Declaration of Independence, the Colonial British government in Allentown began to break down and patriot militias took control. Patriots pressured Tories out of the Allentown area, and plans were made for expanding patriot militias. The burden of supplying a military force logistically fell upon the people, and requisitions for food, grain, cattle, horses and cloth became commonplace.
During the Revolutionary War, Hessian prisoners of war were kept in Allentown in the vicinity of present-day Seventh and Gordon Streets. Allentown also housed four hospital structures, including one in the Zion Reformed Church and one in the Farr Building, used in treating wounded Continental Army soldiers. In 1777, a factory manufacturing paper cartridges for muskets for use in the American Revolution was relocated to Allentown from nearby Bethlehem. That same year, a shop of sixteen armourers was established along the Little Lehigh Creek and was employed in the repair of weapons and the manufacture of saddles and scabbards.
After his victory in the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, General George Washington and his Continental Army staff passed through Allentown, up Water Street (present day Lehigh Street). They stopped at the foot of the street at a large spring on what is now the property occupied by the Wire Mill. They rested and watered their horses, then went their way to their post of duty.
In 1777, with Toryism on ascent in neighboring Bethlehem, the Continental Congress found it necessary to move their cartridge manufacturing to a safer location, and Allentown was selected for repairing patriot arms and bayonets and the manufacturing of saddles. Captain Styles was placed in charge of military supplies and John Tyler and Ebenezer Cowell were armorers in the employ of the state who ran the factory. Sixteen local armorers were actively engaged in repair work at the factory. Wood was procured locally, which provided the necessary charcoal for the repair operations and for replacing the battered stocks of damaged rifles.
Allentown holds historical significance as the location where the Liberty Bell (then known as the Pennsylvania State House bell) was successfully hidden by American patriots to avoid its capture by the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. After George Washington’s defeat at the Battle of Brandywine in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1777, the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia was left defenseless and American patriots began preparing for what they saw as an imminent British attack on the city. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Executive Council ordered that eleven bells, including the State House bell and the bells from Philadelphia’s Christ Church and St. Peter’s Church, be taken down and moved out of Philadelphia to protect them from the British, who would melt the bells down to cast into munitions. The bells were transported north to Northampton Town (Allentown) and hidden in the basement of the Zion Reformed Church in what is now Center City Allentown.
Two wagon masters, John Snyder and Henry Bartholomew, played an important role in transporting the Liberty Bell to Allentown from Philadelphia. Both were employed by the Supreme Executive Council on the day of the Liberty Bell’s journey to convey money and papers of value from Philadelphia to Easton for protection. It is recorded these two farmers of high esteem with horses and wagon of great value were entrusted with “papers in case, a barrel and a large iron chest”. They made more than this one trip. On one journey from Pittstown, New Jersey, these two men carried ammunition and books to store in safety in Easton. The only highway to this city at the time came by way of Germantown through Bethlehem and then east to Easton. Today, a shrine and museum in the Zion Reformed Church’s basement at 622 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, known as the Liberty Bell Museum, marks and celebrates the precise location where the Liberty Bell was hidden for these critical nine months, from September 1777 until its June 18, 1778 return to Philadelphia following the British departure from the city.
Following the American Revolution War, Northampton Town began to slowly grow. In 1782 there were fifty-nine houses and over a hundred cows were stabled in the town. The town was described by a visitor in 1783: “One gets a glimpse of many good stone houses, many of them very neat, and everything about the premises shows good order and attention. The people are mainly German who speak bad English and distressing German.” In 1795, the U.S. Gazetteer described Allentown as:
In 1792, the land to the north of Allentown was purchased by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. However, it was difficult to transport coal over the primitive trail system that existed at the time so very little was mined until 1818 when the company began construction on the Lehigh Canal to transport coal from Mauch Chunk (today’s Jim Thorpe) to Easton down the Lehigh River and into the Delaware. The Lehigh Canal, 46.6 miles (75.0 km) long along the east side of the Lehigh River, was completed for both ascending and descending navigation and opened in 1829. Its construction was the greatest single factor in making anthracite coal one of America’s most important domestic and industrial fuels. However, the operational life of the canal was short. In 1855, the first railroad was built on the west side of the Lehigh River and the competition between them resulted in the steady decline of canal traffic.
Until 1803, the people of Northampton Town received their mail in Bethlehem. However, at the Compass and Square Hotel in Allentown’s Center Square (today’s Penn National Bank building), a post office was established. After reaching a population of over 700 residents in the 1810 United States Census, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gave Northampton Town a legal existence on March 18, 1811 by incorporating it as the Borough of Northampton in Northampton County. The first business of the borough government was to order that cows be moved to pastures and off public streets, which led many citizens to conclude they were better off before the city’s incorporation. In 1812, Lehigh County was formed by partitioning a section of Northampton County and Northampton was designated as the city’s first county seat.
In the early 1800s, Allen’s town, or Allentown, as the borough began to be called since it was no longer a part of Northampton County, continued to grow primarily as a court and market town. The name became so common that, in 1838, the city’s name was officially changed to Allentown. The first bank, the Northampton Bank, was chartered in July 1814 at the northeast corner of Center Square, where the Allentown National Bank Building stands today. Also during this period the first Hamilton Street Bridge, a 530-foot-long chain structure, was constructed over the Lehigh River. The bridge was composed of two suspended lanes, one for east and one for westbound traffic, and a toll house at the western end.
The 1840s were challenging to Allentown. A flood in 1841 swept away the Hamilton Street Bridge and did extensive damage to the river section of the city. The Northampton Bank failed in 1843 due to speculation, resulting in financial ruin for many families. Then, on June 1, 1848, a large fire burned down most of the Central Business District between Seventh and Eighth Streets on Hamilton Street. During the 1850s, however, the city recovered economically with a new bridge across the Lehigh River, brick buildings replaced the wooden ones burned down on Hamilton Street and, in 1852, the first Allentown Fair was held.
As tensions between America’s North and South began increasing and several southern states voted to secede, residents of Lehigh and Northampton counties called a public meeting in Easton on April 13, 1861 to consider the posture of affairs and to take measures for the support of the National Government. At this meeting, citizens voted to establish and equip a new military unit, the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and placed Tilghman H. Good of South Whitehall Township in charge of the unit, assigning him the rank of lieutenant colonel. Commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 4th Regiment at the time, Good previously served as captain of the Allen Rifles, a Lehigh County militia established in 1849, and later went on to become a three-time mayor of Allentown. Captain Samuel Yohe of Easton was appointed colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers and Thomas W. Lynn was awarded the rank of major. William H. Gausler, the leader of another Allentown-based militia, the Jordan Artillerists, was subsequently placed in charge of the Allen Rifles.
Following the Union Army’s defeat at the Battle of Fort Sumter and the fort’s April 14, 1861 surrender to Confederate forces, Allentown deployed the Allen Infantry, also known as the “Allen Guards,” to defend the national capital of Washington, D.C. and in response to Lincoln’s April 15, 1861 proclamation. During their three months’ service, which lasted until July 23, 1861, these Allentonians comprised the first of five Pennsylvania units that guarded the nation’s capital from Confederate attack. In recognition of this early service, the soldiers from this Allentown infantry unit became known as Pennsylvania First Defenders.
On August 5, 1861, Andrew Curtin, then Pennsylvania’s governor, granted authority to Good to raise a new regiment, and Good developed the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. Good secured help from William H. Gausler of Allentown, who was commissioned as a major with the regiment’s central command staff, and John Peter Shindel Gobin, an officer with the Sunbury Guards in Northumberland County, who had been given the authority to form his own unit and later became a Pennsylvania state senator and the state’s lieutenant governor.
The 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was comprised of several units with Companies B, G, I, and K being recruited from Allentown, Company F being recruited from Catasaqua, Companies A and E being recruited from Easton, Company C being recruited from Sunbury, and Companies D and H being recruited from Perry County. The only Pennsylvania regiment to fight in the Union Army’s 1864 Red River campaign Deep South’s Trans-Mississippi theater, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers proved immediately effective, helping turn the Civil War in the Union’s favor with their contribution to victories in the Battle of St. Johns Bluff in Florida (October 1–3, 1862), the Battle of Pocotaligo in South Carolina (October 21–23, 1862), and General Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign, including the Battles of Berryville, Opequan, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek in Virginia, and in contributing to the defense of the nation’s capital following Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. Other known Union Army units from Allentown included the 5th, 41st, 128th, and 176th Pennsylvania Infantries.
On October 19, 1899, Allentown erected and dedicated the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which still stands in the city’s center square at Seventh and Hamilton Streets, in honor of Union soldiers from Allentown and local Lehigh Valley towns and boroughs who died in defense of the Union in the Civil War.
The opening of the Lehigh Canal transformed Allentown and the Lehigh Valley from a rural agricultural area dominated by German-speaking people into one America’s first urbanized industrialized areas and expanded the city’s commercial and industrial capacity greatly. With this, Allentown underwent significant industrialization, ultimately becoming a major center for heavy industry and manufacturing.
Allentown’s industrial development, beginning in the 18th century, was largely a product of necessity. David Deshler, Allentown’s first shopkeeper, opened a sawmill in 1782. By 1814, the list of industrial plants in the city included flour mills, sawmills, two saddle makers, a tannery and tan yard, a woolen mill, a card weaving plant, two gunsmiths, two tobacconists, two clock-makers, and two printers. In 1855, the first railroads to reach Allentown were opened, representing direct competition for the Lehigh Canal’s coal transport. The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad ordered four locomotives and stations to be erected in Allentown, Easton, and Mauch Chunk. The railroad was placed in operation in September 1855. Connections to New York City were made via the Central Railroad of New Jersey and connections with Philadelphia were later made via the Perkiomen Railroad, which operated between Norristown and Freemansburg.
In the 1840s, beds of iron ore were discovered in the hills around Allentown and a furnace was constructed in 1846 by the Allentown Iron Core Company for the production of pig iron. The furnace opened in 1847 under the supervision of Samuel Lewis, an expert in iron production, leading to the opening of other Allentown plants for a wide variety of metal products. The Allentown Rolling Mill Company was created in 1860 from a merger of several smaller companies and became the most significant iron company in the city. Although not as large as the iron and steel industry in neighboring Bethlehem in the latter half of the 19th century, Allentown became a major iron-producing center.
Henry Leh contributed significantly to Allentown’s industrialization with the opening of a shoe and ready-to-wear clothing store. The store, called Leh’s, opened in 1850. By 1861, Leh’s provided the Union Army with much-needed military boots. During the Civil War, in addition to Leh’s, eight brick yards, a saw mill, the Allentown Paint factory, two additional shoe factories, a piano factory, flour mills, breweries and distilleries opened in Allentown.
The Allentown Boiler Works was founded in 1883 by Charles Collum. He and his partner John D. Knouse built a large facility at Third and Gordon Streets in Allentown’s First Ward, near the Lehigh Valley Railroad yard by Jeter’s Island (later named Kline’s Island). The business manufactured iron products, some of which were used in the White House and at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Its boilers and kilns were used across the United States and abroad in Canada, Cuba, and the Philippines.
In addition to the iron and railroad industries, Allentown also developed a strong industry in the brewing of beer and was home to several notable breweries, including the Horlacher Brewery (founded 1897, closed 1978), the Neuweiler Brewery (founded 1875, closed 1968) and Schaefer Beer, whose brewery was later acquired by Pabst and Guinness and is now owned by the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams beer.
Brickworks flourished in the city until after World War I. The clay unearthed in various sections of the Allentown area proved highly suitable for the manufacture of building brick and fire brick. Bricks were the first products shipped outside of the Allentown area by rail and were sold nationwide. Food processing started in Allentown with early bakers who came to Allentown with the city’s first settlers. In 1887, Wilson Arbogast and Morris C. Bastian formed Arbogast and Bastian, where commercial slaughtering was done on a large scale.
With industrialization, Allentown also became a major banking and finance center. In 1860, William H. Ainey founded the Allentown Savings Institution and was chosen its first president. In 1863–64, the Second National Bank of Allentown was formed, and Ainey was elected its first president, a position he held until the time of his death. Ainey contributed to Allentown’s industrial and retail growth, helping finance The Iowa Barb Wire Company, which was later absorbed by American Steel & Wire, The Pioneer Silk Factory, The Palace Silk Mill, and the Allentown Spinning Company.
In the late 1870s, Allentown’s iron industry collapsed, leaving the city economically depressed. To prevent this from recurring, efforts were made to diversify the city’s industrial base. Convincing the Phoenix Manufacturing Company to open a silk mill in Allentown was the first major success of this effort. The Adelaide mill at Race and Court Streets prompted the opening of Pioneer Silk Mill in 1886, and the city emerged as one of the nation’s leading silk manufacturing centers. With its many ancillary businesses, the silk industry became the city’s largest industry and remained so until the late 20th century. By 1914, there were 26 mills in Allentown. By 1928, when rayon was introduced, the number of mills grew to 85. Over 10,000 people were employed in the Allentown silk industry at the industry’s height during the 1940s.
In 1905, Jack and Gus Mack moved their motor car plant, Mack Trucks, from Brooklyn to Allentown, taking over the foundries of the former Weaver-Hirsh company on South 10th Street. By 1914, Mack Trucks developed a global reputation for manufacturing sturdy and reliable trucks and vehicles. Many were sent to battlefields of the Western Front in France before the United States entered World War I in 1917. The British gave the Mack AC five and seven-ton trucks the nickname “Bulldog”. Mack eventually grew to have eight manufacturing plants in Allentown.
Retailer Max Hess came to Allentown in 1896 on a business trip and envisioned a department store serving the area. He moved his family from Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1897, and he and his brother Charles opened Hess Brothers on Ninth and Hamilton Streets. Hess Brothers became known for flamboyance, including offering the latest European fashion apparel. Opening in 1926, the Zollinger-Harned Company became Allentown’s third major department store in the city’s Central Business District.
In the post-World War II era, on October 11, 1945, Western Electric opened a plant on Allentown’s Union Boulevard. On October 1, 1951, the world’s first transistor production began at the Allentown Western Electric plant. The plant was at the forefront of the post-war electronics revolution.
The Pennsylvania guide, compiled by the Writers’ Program of the Works Progress Administration, described the impact that Allentown’s historical patterns of immigration and the Pennsylvania German community had on Allentown’s linguistic landscape in the first half of the 20th century, noting in 1940 that:
By the mid-20th century, Allentown was a major retailing and entertainment center separate from Philadelphia and New York City. The establishment of Hess’s, Leh’s, and Zollinger department stores led to the growth of the retail business sector in the city’s Central Business District. Dozens of smaller retail stores, restaurants, hotels, banks and professional offices in the city’s emerged in what was then was called “downtown” and today is called center city). At least seven cinemas and stage theaters also were developed along Hamilton Street between Fifth and Tenth Streets.
By the mid-1960s, Allentown’s economy had been booming for decades, but rising taxes in the city and the inability to expand the city’s legal limits began leading to a migration of the baby boom generation to towns outside the city limits. Townships such as Salisbury, South Whitehall and Whitehall had large areas of farmland that were prime locations for the development of large housing estates. Allentown began to be drained of its working class, who began migrating to the newer, less-expensive housing in Allentown’s suburbs, which offered lower taxes, green space, less crime, and newer schools.
With these demographic changes beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing throughout the latter part of the 20th century, Allentown’s city government and the Allentown School District were greatly challenged with diminished resources. The city’s and school district’s financial challenges, in turn, further increased the number of working class families who opted to flee Allentown for its suburbs, creating a sea change in the demographics of city neighborhoods, especially in Center City. With the departure of many working class families from older center city neighborhoods, many homes were sold to landlords who converted them into inexpensive multi-family apartments, many of which became government-subsidized housing permitted under the city’s lax zoning enforcement and permissive city codes.
While Allentown’s neighborhoods and school system declined, the city focused much of its attention and resources on Hamilton Street retail and the Central Business District, largely ignoring the neighborhoods around them. This exacerbated the decline of the city even further. With the population growing in the Allentown suburbs, more and more shopping centers and services were built outside of the city to accommodate the needs of these growing communities. In 1966, Whitehall Mall, the first closed shopping mall north of Philadelphia, was opened. Ten years later, in 1976, the larger Lehigh Valley Mall was built north of U.S. Route 22. Stores in Allentown’s downtown shopping district began to close, replaced with stores whose customers were less affluent than they had been historically. Large areas of Allentown’s downtown were torn down for parking lots and the downtown business district was rebuilt in an attempt to compete with the emergence of suburban shopping areas. A multi-block row of stores known as the Hamilton Mall was developed, including covered sidewalks and reduced traffic. But the effort ultimately proved unsuccessful, and two of the city’s major department stores, Leh’s and Zollingers, closed by 1990. The third, Hess’s, was sold to The Bon-Ton in 1994, which subsequently closed in 1996. In 1993, the Corporate Center, the city’s new flagship business center on North Seventh Street, fell victim to a large sinkhole, which led to its condemnation and ultimate demolition.
Combined with the challenges confronting center city Allentown, the manufacturing economy of the Northeastern United States began suffering from deindustrialization associated with foreign competition, trade policies, and manufacturing costs, and many Allentown factories and corporations began to close or relocate. Mack Trucks relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina, Agere Systems (formerly Western Electric) moved to San Jose, California, and other Allentown-based factories downsized considerably or ceased operation. As the manufacturing base of Allentown’s economy eroded, once high-paying industrial jobs were replaced with lower-paying service sector jobs, and Allentown being cited globally as one of the most prominent examples of a city being decimated by the late 20th century’s emergence of the Rust Belt.
In the 2000s and 2010s, Allentown’s economy has begun recreating itself and recovering, largely led by service industries combined with health care, transportation, warehousing, and some continued manufacturing.
The Allentown Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) operates a business incubator, the Bridgeworks, which helps attract and support young commercial and manufacturing businesses. In addition, the Neighborhood Improvement Zone (NIZ) was created by the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 2009 to encourage development and revitalization in Allentown. The NIZ consists of approximately 128 acres (52 hectares) in Center City Allentown and the city’s new Riverfront district on the western side of the Lehigh River.
Allentown’s Central Business District was redeveloped in 2014 along with the construction of the PPL Center, a 10,500-capacity indoor arena that hosts the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, a professional American Hockey League ice hockey team, and other sports, entertainment, and concert events. The redevelopment project also included the opening of a full-service Renaissance Hotel and redeveloped office buildings.
In April 2016, Allentown was one of only six communities in the country to be named a “national success story” by the Urban Land Institute for its downtown redevelopment and transformation that has generated nearly $1 billion in new development projects as of April 2019.
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