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Lower Saucon Township provides a unique glimpse of the region's many diverse villages and the German immigrant population. Towns including Wassergass, Shimersville, Polk Valley, Redington, and Bingen were settled largely because of the area's fertile soil, abundant water, and many iron and limestone...
Author
Lee A. Weidner, Karen M. Samuels, Barbara J. Ryan and the Lower Saucon Township Historical Society
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN #
0738538027
EAN Code
9780738538020
ISBN #
5
The story begins in 1848, when the Moravian Brethren sold 274 acres of farmland to investors who resold them as building lots. By 1855, Asa Packer had laid the tracks of his Lehigh Valley Railroad along the Lehigh River, bringing coal from Carbon County to markets in New York and Philadelphia. Indus...
Author
Kenneth F. Raniere, Karen M. Samuels, South Bethlehem Historical Society
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN #
0738572756
EAN Code
9780738572758
ISBN #
4
Located in the Lehigh Valley along the Lehigh River, Bethlehem was founded by Moravian settlers in 1741. In 1845, the traffic on the Lehigh Canal convinced the Moravians to open the town to outsiders who could purchase their land and buildings. The former Moravian farmlands south of the river were s...
Author
William G. Weiner Jr., Karen M. Samuels
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN #
0738575704
EAN Code
9780738575704
ISBN #
2
Since its founding in 1741, many extraordinary people have called Bethlehem home. Teacher Polly Blum introduced needlework to her Moravian Seminary students in 1818 and soon received a request from the wife of Pres. John Adams for one of their pieces. In 1932, Sam Born established Just Born Candy Co...
Author
Karen M. Samuels
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN #
1467100838
EAN Code
9781467100830
ISBN #
1