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Allentown Fairgrounds Hotel at 448 N. 17th Street, 2020. Allentown Fairgrounds is located at 302 North 17th Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It hosts the Great Allentown Fair annually in late August and early September. The fairgrounds was established in 1889 and comprises 46 acres and is owned and operated by the Lehigh County Agricultural ...
The Great Allentown Fair is an annual fair and agricultural show that is held at the Allentown Fairgrounds in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is operated by the Lehigh County Agricultural Society. [1] It is one of the oldest fairs in the United States, and one of the largest in the state of Pennsylvania .
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is a city in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. 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 ...
The following is a list of city parks and recreation facilities located in Allentown: [4] Allen Park. South 4th and West Union Streets. Map location: 40°36′05″N 075°27′52″W. / 40.60139°N 75.46444°W / 40.60139; -75.46444 ( Allen Park) Part of Trout Hall and Lehigh Country Heritage Museum.
The district takes its name from the use of the area as the Lehigh County Agricultural Society's fairgrounds from 1852-1888. After the society moved the Allentown Fairgrounds to its current location at 17th and Chew Streets, the land was auctioned off to developers. The area was developed with a mixture of architectural styles, but Victorian ...
Map location: 40°34′08″N 075°29′54″W. / 40.56889°N 75.49833°W / 40.56889; -75.49833 ( Bogert Covered Bridge) Historic wooden covered bridge located at Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 145-foot-long (44 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof.
Camp Crane was a World War I United States Army Ambulance Service (USAAS) training camp, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its mission was to train ambulance drivers to evacuate casualties on the Western Front in France. It was named for Brigadier General Charles Henry Crane, surgeon general of the Army in 1882-83.
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County Trout Hall, built in 1770 by James Allen, son of Allentown founder William Allen, is one of the oldest houses in Allentown; from 1867 to 1905, it served as the home of Muhlenberg College The 23-story PPL Building in Center City Allentown, the city's tallest building PPL Center ...