Our Changing Landscape: 19th Century Industry & Transformation in Northampton County

The Lehigh Valley is changing rapidly and has always been a place of social and industrial change. Populations grow and change. Industries shift, move, and develop. Roads first formed by the Lenape, then grown by European settlers, changed and evolved: from on-foot travel to horses, wagons, and eighteen-wheelers.

But how did we get here? How did we evolve from small farming communities to a bustling industrial hub – so much so that the Lehigh Valley’s cheeky nickname is now Warehouse Valley? How did this small corner of Eastern Pennsylvania become the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, and how does that historical context continue to shape our landscape?

Join Martha Capwell Fox, archivist and historian for the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, for an afternoon discussion on how geography, geology, and human genius met to begin the building of modern America.

This program is in partnership with NCHGS’s exhibit, Warehouse Valley: A Changing Landscape.
Free for NCHGS members and $10.00 for non-members.