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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]
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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
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 ...
Location of Lehigh County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
Unincorporated communities in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (41 P) B. Boroughs in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (1 C, 8 P) C.
The Lehigh County Historical Society is headquartered in the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum, a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) museum facility with four galleries and more than 10,000 square feet (930 m 2) of exhibition space. [1] Recent exhibits have included exhibits on General Harry Clay Trexler, Native Americans, and U.S. presidents.
South Mountain is a colloquial name applied to an Appalachian Mountain range extending north and northeast along the south side of Lebanon Valley to the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. South Mountain includes the southernmost cluster of peaks that straddle Berks , Lancaster , and Lebanon counties [ 2 ] and the northernmost end of ...