Lehigh County Historical Society

Lehigh County Historical Society is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1904, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting the history of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley. The Historical Society and Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum are located at 432 West Walnut Street in Allentown.

Lehigh County Historical Society Headquarters
Established1904
Location432 West Walnut Street
Allentown, Pennsylvania 18102
Coordinates40.60219°N 75.46592°W / 40.60219; -75.46592
TypeHistorical/Museum
DirectorJoseph Garrera, M.A.
CuratorJill Youngken, M.A.
Public transit access LANTA bus: 102, 107, 210, 220, 324 (at 5th and Hamilton/Linden streets)
Websitehttp://www.lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org

Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum

The Lehigh County Historical Society is headquartered in the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum, a state-of-the-art 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) museum facility with four galleries and more than 10,000 square feet (930 m2) of exhibition space.[1] Recent exhibits have included exhibits on General Harry C. Trexler, Native Americans, and American Presidents. The Museum maintains an exhibit on the Lehigh Valley and an extensive collection of local and regional historical materials, with more than 30,000 historical artifacts in its collection.

Scott Andrew Trexler II Research Library & Archive
Now one of the sites administered by the Lehigh County Historical Society, Trout Hall served as the organization's home for many years.

The Lehigh County Historical Society's library, the Scott Andrew Trexler II Research Library and Archive, houses 200,000 vintage photographs and nearly three million historical documents.[1] Included in its collections are more than 800 volumes of church and cemetery records for Lehigh and neighboring counties, early county records (tax rolls, wills and land deeds), indexed marriage records and announcements, 800 volumes of family genealogical histories, city directories (1860 onwards), maps, census records and published histories.[2] The library also maintains microfiche versions of several of Allentown's early German and English-language newspapers.[2] Access to the library is free for Society members; a small fee applies for non-members.

Historic Sites
Built in 1756, the Troxell-Steckel House is one of the oldest buildings in Lehigh County. The house is administered by the Lehigh County Historical Society and is open to the public.

The Lehigh County Historical Society administers several historical sites in the region:

Publications
Proceedings, a bi-annual publication of the Lehigh County Historical Society.

Proceedings, the journal of the Lehigh County Historical Society, was published on a bi-annual basis since 1906[3] and featured articles focusing on local and regional history. From 1947 to 1994, the publication was bound in a distinctive blue buckram hardcover binding with gilt lettering. In 1994, the journal was published in softcover. Publication of Proceedings was discontinued in 2004.

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See also

References
  1. "Welcome to LCHS". Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  2. "LCHS Collections". Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  3. "LCHS Publications". Retrieved 2008-06-17.
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