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| | AllRefer.com - Allentown, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
 | | Iron, cement, and mining, the city's traditional industrial mainstays, have given way to printing and publishing and the manufacture of food, metal, and leather products, chemicals, electrical and medical equipment, and furniture. |
 | | In the city are Muhlenberg College, Cedar Crest College, Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales, United Wesleyan College, and a campus of Pennsylvania State Univ. Allentown was founded in 1762 by William Allen, chief justice of Pennsylvania, and was settled largely by German religious groups. |
 | | First known as Northampton, it was renamed Allentown c.1836. |
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