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There are great homes with motivated home owners looking to
transform their Allentown Victorian, Ranch, Split-Level single
family or Condominium into the ideal living space.
Allentown has a mix of old and new homes that provide Design's By
Shoshana inspiration and motivation
History:
Allentown
was originally named Northampton town 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
Northampton town 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.
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