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By Martha Capwell Fox

whilst the 1st German, Huguenot, and Scotch-Irish settlers arrived in what's now Whitehall Township approximately 300 years in the past, their lives have been fraught with peril. a few of the first households have been approximately burnt up in raids through the French and Indian warfare. After the U.S. used to be confirmed, the township settled right into a lengthy tranquil farming interval, which lasted till the arriving of iron and the iron horse within the 1850s. Then, the Lehigh Valley turned the cradle of the commercial Revolution. groups equivalent to Egypt, Hokendauqua, Coplay, and Fullerton sprang up round iron generators, cement vegetation, and railroads. the hot industries introduced marketers, innovators, and immigrants to Whitehall and Coplay, altering the face of the township in lots of ways in which are nonetheless obvious today.

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