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In 1918, women in the U.S. did not yet have the right to vote. However, they had other protected rights, as evidenced by a newspaper article from Aug. 31, 1918 about a Hellertown hotel owner who was fined for requiring his female employees to “work more than six days a week.”
More than a year after the Armistice signed on Nov. 11, 1918 brought an end to World War I, Hellertown welcomed back the only woman from the borough who answered the call to serve her country during that conflict.
Do you love to take pictures of historic locations in the Saucon Valley area? If you do, you’ll probably want to enter the Lower Saucon Township Historical Society’s “History Through Photography” contest.
The Lehigh and Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum’s massive display takes visitors on a trip through our area’s historic rail systems.
In a win for local preservationists, it was announced in late August that the historic Meadows Road Bridge in Lower Saucon Township has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
It’s not really the time of year for thinking about swimming pools and swimming, but that’s what some volunteers from the Hellertown Historical Society have been doing.
The stone-walled Tavern Room in the historic Heller-Wagner Grist Mill came to life with the sights and sounds of Christmas at the Hellertown Historical Society’s annual Holiday Open House Friday.
Did you know that Lower Saucon Township has a ghost town of sorts? Buried in the brush–consumed by the ravages of time–along a section of Riverside Drive known as “the Narrows” is the former settlement of Redington, which thrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a miniature center of industry.
The clock tower in Hellertown’s Detwiller Plaza has become a beloved borough symbol that appears on everything from Christmas cards to the patches worn by Hellertown police officers. But did you know that barely 30 years ago, it didn’t even exist?
A news account of a 1924 bank robbery at Hellertown’s Saucon Valley Trust Company reads like something straight of a pulp novel or a noir movie, with robbers who told the bank’s employees to ‘put ’em up,’ tied them up and made a dramatic escape out of town in a roadster.