The original plan for the town, detailed in archives now housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, comprised 42 city blocks and 756 lots, most 60 feet (18 m) in width and 230 feet (70 m) in depth. The influence of the Penns, however, prevailed, and Easton was retained as the county seat of the vast area that had been opened up as part of the Walking Purchase. William Allen lent his influence as colonial Pennsylvania's chief justice and as son-in-law of Andrew Hamilton. In 1763, the year after Allentown's founding, an effort was made to move the county seat from Easton to Allentown. Ten years before, in 1752, Northampton and Berks counties had formed, each with a county seat, Easton and Reading, respectively.
It is likely that a certain amount of rivalry among the Penns prompted Allen to decide to start a town of his own in 1762. The geographic area that today comprises Center City Allentown was initially laid out as Northampton Town in 1762 by William Allen, a wealthy shipping merchant, former mayor of the city of Philadelphia and then chief justice of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. From 1867 to 1905, it served as the home of Muhlenberg College. Trout Hall on West Walnut Street, built between 17 by James Allen, son of Allentown founder William Allen, is one of the oldest houses in Allentown. Used primarily as a hunting and fishing lodge, Allen also used the log house to entertain prominent guests, including his brother-in-law James Hamilton and colonial Pennsylvania governor John Penn. A subsequent survey done in 1753 for a road from Easton to Reading shows the location of a log house owned by Allen, situated near the western bank of Jordan Creek, which was believed to have been built around 1740. The land was originally surveyed on November 23, 1736. The land that ultimately became Allentown was part of a 5,000-acre (20 km 2) plot William Allen purchased on September 10, 1735, from his business partner Joseph Turner, who was assigned the warrant to the land by Thomas Penn on May 18, 1732. The price for this tract included shoes and buckles, hats, shirts, knives, scissors, combs, needles, looking glasses, rum, and pipes. In 1736, a large area to the north of Philadelphia, embracing the present site of Allentown and what is now Lehigh County, was deeded by 23 chiefs of the five great Native American nations to three sons of William Penn: John, Thomas, and Richard Penn. In the early 1700s, the land now occupied by the city of Allentown and Lehigh County was a wilderness of scrub oak where Native American Lenape tribes fished for trout and hunted for deer, grouse, and other game.
1.5.1 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.Īllentown is located 48 miles (77 km) north of Philadelphia and 78 miles (126 km) west of New York City. Located on the Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River, Allentown is the largest of three adjacent cities (along with Bethlehem and Easton) in Lehigh and Northampton counties that form the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Allentown was founded in 1762 and is the county seat of Lehigh County. It is the largest city in both Lehigh County and the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th most populated metropolitan area in the U.S. It is the fastest-growing major city in Pennsylvania and the state's third largest city, behind Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The city has a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census. Lehigh Valley International Airport- ABE (Major/International)Īllentown Queen City Municipal Airport- XLL (Minor)Īllentown ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is a city in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
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