On May 27, 1776 a large group of local farmers gathered at the farm of Lorentz Guth to urge the creation of the state of Pennsylvania in an independent United States.
If you were a newcomer to Allentown circa 1900 and were walking down Hamilton Street, you probably would not have given a passing pedestrian in a dark broadcloth suit, wire rimmed glasses and droopy moustache a second glance.
12th century French queens vied to be included on it with the saints.
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On February 20, 1931, the Morning Call, as it had done for several years, went to see Allentown’s oldest citizen, Joseph Ruhe, on his birthday.
The “Hindoo” carried not just freight but also a few passengers. Among them on this voyage was a 26-year-old Cornishman named William Chapman.
In the year 1887 Allentown was recovering from one of the sharpest economic downturns in its history.
In his senior year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, gifted with good looks and intelligence, the son of one of the leading architects in town, he had a lot to look forward to. But before the month of September was out, family tragedy would turn it upside down.
The question might be asked, who was The Mighty Atom that he brought out such devotion and attention?
The rainy, cool weather over the Lehigh Valley on Saturday, March 26, 1932 was not the kind made for lingering outdoors. Yet the sidewalks of Allentown were full of umbrella-holding residents numbering in the thousands.
Staff at the Hotel Bethlehem discovered that a Titanic victim had stayed at the Eagle Hotel, predecessor to the Hotel Bethlehem.
On October 3, 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt found himself in a desperate situation.
The former president of Lafayette College made a treacherous transatlantic voyage on the Great Eastern in 1861
Cedarbrook staff were surprised to discover record books from the mid-19th century, a time when Cedarbrook was known as the Lehigh County Poorhouse and County Farm.
Everyone in the Lehigh Valley knew that it was militia units from eastern Pennsylvania that were the first to answer Lincoln’s call for troops to defend the capital in 1861.
No one can say exactly when the idea for the March for Freedom and Jobs was first conceived.
But it is possible to go back even further to the early 19th century when a Pennsylvanian named James Finley from the western part of the state created what were known as chain suspension bridges.
Historians and biographers often speculate why young Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who apparently had a brilliant career ahead of him as an architect in England, left it all for the comparative wilderness of America.
Frederick Douglass was born an enslaved person- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey- in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
World War I is becoming one of America’s forgotten wars. Ask the average American about it and many would not know what you are talking about.
Many people today have no memory of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But back in the days of swing they were right up there in popularity on the Big Band stages with Glenn Miller and other stars.
Evening shower expected Saturday. Thunderstorm possible Sunday.
