Once among the wealthiest communities in the country, Catasauqua was the birthplace of the modern American iron and steel industry. The energy and inventiveness of industrialists such as David Thomas, J.W. Fuller, and Leonard Peckitt spurred the growth and spread the fame of the Iron Borough far beyond the Lehigh Valley. Entrepreneurs and workers flocked to Catasauqua and North Catasauqua. They filled its mansions and row houses, churches and schools, silk mills, saloons, and playing fields with families who were proud to call the "Million Dollar Town" home.Their pride is evident in the images in Catasauqua and North Catasauqua. Bustling businesses, spacious schools, cherished churches, opulent houses, big parades and public celebrations, and strong, confident faces abound in these photographs. The culmination of that pride and prosperity came in 1914, when Catasauqua welcomed the world to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Crane Iron Works with Old Home Week. Less than ten years later, the iron business was gone, its last years recorded in extraordinary photographs. Life in Catasauqua, though harder, went on and today, the heritage of the Iron Borough days is visible everywhere in both towns-the streets, houses, and churches still loved and lived in as they were a century or more ago.

Catasauqua and North Catasauqua (PA) (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Martha Capwell Fox

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

When the first German, Huguenot, and Scotch-Irish settlers arrived in what is now Whitehall Township nearly three hundred years ago, their lives were fraught with peril. Some of the first families were nearly wiped out in raids during the French and Indian War. After the United States was established, the township settled into a long tranquil farming period, which lasted until the arrival of iron and the iron horse in the 1850s. Then, the Lehigh Valley became the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. Communities such as Egypt, Hokendauqua, Coplay, and Fullerton sprang up around iron mills, cement plants, and railroads. The new industries brought entrepreneurs, innovators, and immigrants to Whitehall and Coplay, changing the face of the township in many ways that are still visible today.

Whitehall and Coplay (Images of America: Pennsylvania)

<p>This is the first book that tells the story of how a small slice of eastern Pennsylvania became the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution. Pennsylvania was America's powerhouse in the nineteenth century, supplying the hot-burning, high-energy anthracite coal that ignited the iron and, later, steel industries that transformed the United States. This revolution began in the five counties-Bucks, Northampton, Lehigh, Carbon, and Luzerne-that are now designated the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. This is where geography, geology, and human genius met to begin the building of modern America.With maps, illustrations, and historic photographs, this book traces the development of the innovative industries that were founded in the Corridor as a result of this confluence of waterways, minerals, and minds-industries that became dominant in the nation and even the world during the past 200 years. As well, we see the people-some famous, some forgotten-whose persistence, determination, and hard work built those industries.</p>

Geography, Geology, and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution

Canal and History Technology Press

<p>Traces the evolution of competitive swimming, from the first organized races in the 1830s to the present day, profiling the prominent figures in the sport as well as important controversies, such as the use of steroids by Olympic swimmers.</p>

Swimming (History of Sports)

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Lucent Books

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Catasauqua and North Catasauqua (PA) (Images of America)

Whitehall and Coplay (Images of America: Pennsylvania)

Geography, Geology, and Genius: How Coal and Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution

Swimming (History of Sports)