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Powder Valley, Pennsylvania
Powder Valley ( Pennsylvania German: ''Pulwerdaal'') is a village in southern Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Powder Valley is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. It is located on the Indian Creek, which rises in the northwest, turns south, and flows through a gorge starting there into the Hosensack Creek, a tributary of Perkiomen Creek. The village uses the Zionsville Zip Code of 18092. History The area of modern-day Powder Valley was once inhabited by the Lenape tribe and lived on for almost 10,000 years. The Lenape tribes were known to live along river fronts or creeks and to use the fertile land around these areas for farming purposes. Due to the long-term harvesting and planting of the land, its ability to sustain agriculture degraded and eventually could no longer sustain crop growth, leading to the land becoming uninhabitable and the tribes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Dutch Language
Pennsylvania Dutch (, or ) or Pennsylvania German is a Variety (linguistics), variety of Palatine German dialects, Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the United States and Canada. There are approximately 300,000 native speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch in the United States and Canada. The language traditionally has been spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, who are descendants of late 17th- and early to late 18th-century immigrants to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, who arrived primarily from Southern Germany and, to a lesser degree, the regions of Alsace and Lorraine in eastern France, and parts of Switzerland. Pennsylvania Dutch#Autonym, Differing explanations exist on why the Pennsylvania Dutch are referred to as ''Dutch'', which typically refers to the inhabitants of the Netherlands or the Dutch language, only distantly related to Pennsylvania German. Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Penn
William Penn ( – ) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quakers, Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonization of the Americas, British colonial era. An advocate of democracy and religious freedom, Penn was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements in the state. Penn also owned at least twelve enslaved people at his Pennbury estate. In 1681, Charles II of England, King Charles II granted an area of land corresponding to the present-day U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Delaware to Penn to offset debts he owed Penn's father, the admiral and politician William Penn (Royal Navy officer), Sir William Penn. The following year, Penn left England and sailed up Delaware Bay and the Delaware River, where he founded Philadelphia on the river's western bank. Penn's Quaker government was not viewed favourably by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Milford Township, Pennsylvania
Lower Milford Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of Lower Milford Township was 3,775 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. History Dillingersville Union School and Church in Lower Milford Township, built in 1885, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Geography Lower Milford is the southernmost township in Lehigh County. It includes six villages: Corning (in Upper Milford Township), Dillingersville, Hosensack, Kraussdale, Limeport (in Upper Saucon Township) and Zionsville. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which , or 0.12%, are water. It is located in the Delaware River watershed. Saucon Creek begins in Lower Milford and drains part of it north into the Lehigh River. Lower Milford is also the source of three tributary creeks of Perkiomen Creek, which drains south to the Schuylkill River: Hosensa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Zionsville, Pennsylvania
Old Zionsville is an unincorporated community in Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. Old Zionsville is located along Pennsylvania State Routes 29 and 100, southeast of Macungie. Old Zionsville has a box post office with ZIP Code 18068. Surrounding areas use the Zionsville ZIP code of 18092 or the Emmaus ZIP Code of 18049. The Upper Milford Township municipal building is located at 5671 Chestnut Street at the former site of Kings Highway Elementary School and has a Saturday farmers' market. There are two churches of the Lutheran and UCC faiths in the village and two more of the Mennonite and Bible Fellowship faiths within a mile to the east near Zionsville. Old Zionsville straddles the divide between the Lehigh and Schuylkill River watersheds. While most of the village is drained via headwaters of Perk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macungie, Pennsylvania
Macungie is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States, its second oldest. As of the 2020 census, Macungie had a population of 3,257. Macungie is a suburb of Allentown, and part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. History Macungie is derived from "Maguntsche", a place name used as early as 1730 to describe the region that is present-day Macungie and Emmaus, Pennsylvania. "Maguntsche" is a Lenape word, meaning either "bear swamp" or "feeding place of the bears". The borough's current seal depicts a bear coming to drink at water near some cattails. The Valentine Weaver House in Macungie was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Macungie was founded as Millerstown in 1776 by Peter Miller. On November 15, 1857, the village of Millerstown was incorporated as a borough. During Fries's Rebellion in 1800, the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmaus, Pennsylvania
Emmaus ( ) is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, it had a population of 11,652. Emmaus is located in the Lehigh Valley, the third-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania and 68th-largest metropolitan area in the nation. In 2007 and again in 2009, Emmaus was listed as one of the top 100 "Best Places to Live" in the United States by ''Money'' magazine. Emmaus is located south of Allentown, north of Philadelphia, and west of New York City. History 18th century Emmaus was settled in the early 1700s during the colonial era by German Protestants of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths who were fleeing religious persecution in Europe. Its earliest German settlers were primarily farmers. In 1741, the land on which present-day Emmaus is located was donated to the Moravian Church by Sebastian Heinrich Knauss and Jacob Ehrenhardt for the purpose of creating a closed faith-based village. The village was originally named Salzburg. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmaus High School
Emmaus High School is a large public high school located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. The school serves grades 9–12 in Pennsylvania's East Penn School District in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Emmaus High School is located immediately off Cedar Crest Boulevard, at 500 Macungie Avenue in Emmaus, a borough miles south of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Student population As of the 2023-24 school year, Emmaus High School had a student enrollment of 2,819 students and 193.35 classroom teachers on an FTE basis for a student–teacher ratio of 14.58, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. There were 861 students eligible for free lunch and 84 eligible for reduced cost lunch. Emmaus High School serves students grades nine through 12 from Emmaus, Lower Macungie Township, Macungie, Upper Milford Township, and Alburtis, all located in the Lehigh Valley, the third-largest metropolitan region of Pennsylvania. The school ranks among the top Lehigh V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest, the Heartland or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south. The U.S. Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. The 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Territory
The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from part of the unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolution. Established in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation through the Northwest Ordinance, it was the nation's first post-colonial Organized incorporated territories of the United States, organized incorporated territory. At the time of its creation, the territory included all the land west of Pennsylvania, northwest of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River below the Great Lakes, and what later became known as the Boundary Waters. The region was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris of 1783. Throughout the American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, the region was part of the British Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec and the Western theater of the American Revolutionary War, western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germans
Germans (, ) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, constitution of Germany, implemented in 1949 following the end of World War II, defines a German as a German nationality law, German citizen. During the 19th and much of the 20th century, discussions on German identity were dominated by concepts of a common language, culture, descent, and history.. "German identity developed through a long historical process that led, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to the definition of the German nation as both a community of descent (Volksgemeinschaft) and shared culture and experience. Today, the German language is the primary though not exclusive criterion of German identity." Today, the German language is widely seen as the primary, though not exclusive, criterion of German identity. Estimates on the total number of Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking Purchase
The Walking Purchase, also known as the Walking Treaty, was a 1737 agreement between the family of William Penn, the original proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape native Indians. In the purchase, the Penn family and proprietors produced a deed to claim that a 1686 treaty with the Lenape ceded an area of 1,200,000 acres (4,860 km2) in present-day Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania in colonial Pennsylvania, which included a western land boundary extending as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half, which led to its name. The area is along the northern reaches of the Delaware River, on Pennsylvania's border with what was called, at the time, West Jersey. ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' refers to the treaty as a "land swindle". The Lenape appealed to the Iroquois Indian tribe to their north for aid on the issue, but the Iroquois refused their request, ultimately siding with the Penn interests. Nearly 300 years later, in 2004, a lawsuit was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Penn
Thomas Penn ( – 21 March 1775) was an English landowner and mercer who was the List of colonial governors of Pennsylvania, chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775. He was one of 17 children of William Penn, the founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in British America. In 1737, Thomas Penn negotiated the Walking Purchase, a contested land cession treaty he negotiated with Lenape chief Lappawinsoe that transferred control over 1,200,000 acres (4,860 km2) of territory in the present-day Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania regions of Pennsylvania and a portion of West Jersey in Province of New Jersey, colonial New Jersey from the Lenape tribe to the Province of Pennsylvania. Born in 1702 in Kensington, Kingdom of England, England into a Quakers, Quaker family, Penn was apprenticed to a London mercer at a young age by his father William Penn, William due to his family's financial insecurity. When his father died in 1718, William's Will and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
