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Easton Neighborhood Spotlight: Easton Founded in 1752, Easton is home to almost 27,000 residents. It is located at the site where the Delaware and Lehigh rivers meet and was a military hospital site during the Revolutionary War. Easton has been home to Lafayette College since 1826 and was once home to Union Law School before the Civil War. During […]
Lahaska Neighborhood Spotlight: Lahaska / New Hope Lahaska is a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania, just one hour from the bustling city of Philadelphia. It is home to a little over 14,000 residents. Lahaska is only a few miles away from the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, making a new state of adventure less than a 20-minute drive away.   The Vibe The overall […]
NeighborhoodSpotlight Neighborhood Spotlight: Yardley Yardley has been around since before the United States was even founded. William Yardley settled in the area in 1682 and, although he and his family died over the course of the next 20 years, his nephew settled here in 1704 and helped to develop Yardley. Yardley is historically known as a transportation hub, once […]
Bethlehem Neighborhood Spotlight: Bethlehem Bethlehem is a city in Pennsylvania with almost 75,000 residents. As of 2010, it is Pennsylvania’s seventh biggest city. The city was founded in 1741 on Christmas Eve by a group of Moravian missionaries, fittingly naming it after the Biblical town of the same name in Judea. During the industrial revolution, the town began producing […]
Lansdale Neighborhood Spotlight: Lansdale Lansdale is in Montgomery County, roughly 50 minutes from Philadelphia. The first settlers in the area were the Jenkins family. In the 1850s, construction began on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, attracting more businesses and future residents. The chief surveyor of the railroad was Philip Lansdale Fox, so eventually, the town became Lansdale.   The Vibe […]
Collegeville Neighborhood Spotlight: Collegeville Collegeville is a Philadelphia suburb in Montgomery County, incorporated in 1896. It sits along Perkiomen Creek and is part of land William Penn bought in 1684. Trains started coming to the area in 1868. Some wanted to name the station after the Perkiomen Bridge, but others wanted to name it after the Freeland Public School […]
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