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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 in 1941. From its earliest days in the 19th century, horse racing was a popular event at the Allentown Fair. In 1902, the Allentown Fairgrounds' half-mile track was regarded as "one of the finest in the country." [10] At the Great Allentown Fair in 1905, racehorse Dan Patch set a record of 2:01 on the half-mile track. [11]
The adjacent Old Allentown Cemetery is the city's second-oldest cemetery, located next to Allentown Cemetery Park. Burial site of Tilghman Good (1830–87), a two-term mayor of Allentown and commander of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, a division of the Union Army during the American Civil War. [3] Allentown Fairgrounds (1889)
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County, in May 2010. The culture of Allentown, Pennsylvania dates back to the early 18th century settlement of the city and the surrounding Lehigh Valley, which was then part of the Province of Pennsylvania, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, by German immigrants almost ...
However, by the end of August 1919, nearly all physical evidence of Camp Crane was gone, and the 1919 Allentown Fair was held at the site. [3] In 1927, a stone monument to the men who trained at Camp Crane was erected at the Allentown Fairgrounds. In the 1960s it was moved to Allentown's West Park, a few blocks away. [8]
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 ...
Lehigh Parkway, the largest park in Allentown, built during the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project, in 2012. Cedar Creek Park in west-side Allentown in 2019. Franklin Park at 218 N. 14th Street in 2021. Allentown, Pennsylvania is nationally-known for its park system.
Annually the third week in May (from Friday through Sunday) Location (s) Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. Years active. 1984–2019, 2021–. Website. www .cedarcrest .edu /mayfair. Mayfair Festival of the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts festival, [2] including visual arts, performing arts, garden arts, children's art, and art education, held ...