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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.
Scotty Wood Stadium is the college football, field hockey, and track and field stadium of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The college's athletics teams are known as the Muhlenberg Mules .
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 ...
Chew's daughter Juliana Chew (Mrs. Philip Nicklin), mother of Sophia Chew Nicklin Dallas, Second Lady of the United States. Chew wed Mary Galloway, his first cousin, on June 13, 1747, at West River, Maryland. They had five daughters before Mary died. From 1754 to 1771, Chew and his family lived on Front Street in Philadelphia. He married again ...
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 ...
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]
From 1867 to 1905, Muhlenberg College was located in Allentown's Trout Hall, a mansion built in 1770 by James Allen, son of William Allen. Muhlenberg's current campus opened in 1905. Muhlenberg College was founded in 1848 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the Allentown Seminary by Samuel K. Brobst, a Reformed Lutheran minister. Christian Rudolph ...
Neuweiler Brewery was founded by Louis Neuwiler, who bought out longtime local brewer Benedict Nuding in 1900. Nuding's operation was limited by its location, and in 1911 Neuweiler and his son, Charles, eager to expand, hired Philadelphia architects Peukert and Wunder to build a new complex some distance away, at Front and Gordon streets.