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In 2001, the Easton Library joined the neighboring Allentown Public Library, Bethlehem Public Library, and Moravian College Library at Moravian College to create the Lehigh Valley Library System. [12] This consortium serves roughly 660,000 people in the Lehigh Valley. [25]
The library's first permanent location was in Old Main, with 1,500 books in agriculture and the sciences. [1] In 1904, the library was moved to the Carnegie Building (then "Carnegie Library"), which provided a 50,000 book capacity. By 1940, the library's collection had grown to 150,000, overcrowding Carnegie by three times its capacity.
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.
2.13 Lehigh Valley. 2.14 Mont Alto. ... The following is a list of academic buildings in the Pennsylvania State University system ... Vairo Library; DuBois ...
Main library dedicated November 5, 1895, at which time Carnegie announced an additional gift to enlarge the building. The mammoth structure in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh contains the Main Library, Carnegie Music Hall (the fourth to open in the USA), Carnegie Museum of Natural History , and Carnegie Museum of Art .
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]
Along with Northampton County to its east, the two counties combine to form the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, the third-largest metropolitan area of Pennsylvania with a population of 861,889 as of 2020. Lehigh County is one of the fastest-growing counties in Pennsylvania and the more highly populated of the two counties.
Williams Township is a township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.The township's population was 6,581 at the 2020 census. The township is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.