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About Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown was originally named Northamptontown by its founder, Chief Justice of Colonial Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, William Allen. Allen, also a former Mayor of Philadelphia and successful businessman, drew up plans for the rural village in 1762. Despite its formal name, from the beginning, nearly everyone called it "Allen's town". Allen hoped Northamptontown would turn into a commercial center because of its location along the Lehigh River. The low water level most of the year, however, made river trade impractical. Sometime in the early 1770s, William Allen apparently gave the property to his son, James, who built a country home called Trout Hall after his father's hunting and fishing lodge. Even by the time of the American Revolution, Allentown remained little more than a small village of Pennsylvania Dutch, more properly German, farmers and tradesmen, but continued its development as a center of marketing for local farmers from the post revolutionary years into the 1920s. The U.S. Census of 1810 placed it at the heart of the largest grain producing regions in the country.
In 1838, the city officially adopted the name Allentown which was not the only change in store for this town on the Lehigh. By the 1830s and 1840s, America's industrial revolution, which was born in the Lehigh Valley, was entering its take-off stage, and the arrival of the Lehigh Canal and later the railroad, opened up Allentown in a way that would have been beyond William Allen's wildest dreams.
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Allentown Neighborhoods, Developments, and Subdivisions
Allentown Center
Dawn Square
Fairgrounds
Fountain Park
Historic District
Jordan Park
North End
Old Allentown
Old Fairgrounds
Penn Square
Allentown East
Hanover Hills
Keck Park
Midway Manor
Troxell Manor
Washington Crossing
Woodlawn Park
Allentown South
Alton Park
Cumberland Gardens
Devon Ridge
Fairview Park
Franklin Woods
Greenleaf Heights
High Point Terrace
Hillcrest Terrace
Lehigh Parkway
Little Lehigh Manor
Madison Heights
Mountain Park Manor
Newbridge Park
Parkway Terrace
Penn Square
South Mountain Terrace
Susquehanna Park
The Villas at South Mountain
Trout Run
Walden Park
Walden Terrace
Westbrook Park
Wooded Acres
Allentown West
Cedar Bluffs
College Heights
Hamilton Heights
Hamilton Park
Highland Park
Rose Garden
Springwood Manor
Union Terrace
West Gate
West Hill Terrace
West Park
Allentown West - Parkland
Estates at Trexler Park
Heritage at Trexler Park
Springhouse Commons
Springwood Hills
The Commons at Parkside
The Fields at Springwood Hills
Springwood Manor South
Villas at Trexler Park
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