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7th Street (North 7th Street from the city line to the north through Linden Street to the south) 7th Street is a retail and residential corridor just north of Center City Allentown . It is Allentown 's fastest growing commercial corridor and serves as the primary gateway to Allentown with new streetlights, planters, and waste receptacles.
The company was formed in 1919 by Thomas R. Mullen, William H. Mohr and Les Kift during the height of Allentown's industrial era. Its facilities occupied 55 acres along the Lehigh River, consisting of heavy fabrication buildings, tower fabrication and tower galvanizing. Lehigh Steel was the only major steel manufacturer located in Allentown. [1]
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 ...
In May 1929, the Allentown School District paid $51,000 for a large tract of land at Irving and East Washington Streets in East Allentown. The land was purchased for a new junior high school to accommodate students east of the Lehigh River. In 1951, the Chew Street wing of Central was torn down and replaced by a playground. [9] [16]
America on Wheels is an over-the-road transportation museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The 43,000 square feet (4,000 m 2) museum offers over 23,000 square feet (2,100 m 2) of exhibit space divided into three main galleries and several smaller exhibits. [1] The museum houses rotating exhibits on the second floor.
Main entrance to Camp Crane, converted from the Allentown Fairgrounds main gate, located at the northwest corner of 17th and Chew Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania A fresh arrival at Camp Crane, 1917 When the United States entered World War I , the status of American volunteers in Europe became uncertain because they now had a U.S. military ...
While Camden was closer, Allentown had a more elaborate proposal which helped secure Allentown's bid for the team. [citation needed] Plans to build the PPL Center at the corner of 7th and Hamilton streets in Center City Allentown were announced in late 2009. For much of 2009 and 2010, the focus of the project was on securing funding.
Prior to its construction, the only bridges connecting Center City Allentown and South Allentown were Lehigh Street and the 8th Street bridges, although the single-lane 19th century stone arch Schreibers Bridge (1828, rehabilitated in 1920) provided west end access to southwest Allentown via Lehigh Parkway East. Original bridges were metal ...