Lehigh County Opens New Cement Museum

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lehigh County Opens New Cement Museum The Saylor Park Cement Industry Museum, located in Coplay, Pennsylvania, is the fourth historical museum to be opened in recent months by Lehigh County as part of its Bicentennial celebration. It is the result of cooperation between the county government and the Coplay Cement Manufacturing Company, whose executives were convinced that the preservation of Coplay’s Schoefer kilns would...
read more

Allentown’s Boom Decade

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Allentown’s Boom Decade Allentown underwent rapid development in the 1850’s. Population grew at the rate of 116 percent from 3,779 in 1850 to 8,025 in 1860. This expansion in population was matched by territorial growth in 1852 as a sizable section of land to the east of the original borough – the land lying between the Jordan and Lehigh rivers – was annexed. The economic basis for this development...
read more