14 Facts About Nazareth Pennsylvania

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The names of places in the Lehigh Valley area of Nazareth Pennsylvania are similarly inspired, including Bethlehem, Emmaus, Egypt, and Allentown's Jordan Creek.

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Nazareth Pennsylvania was founded in 1740 by Moravian immigrants from Germany.

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Nazareth Pennsylvania invited the Brethren who accompanied him to Philadelphia to settle at this location for the time being and hired them to build his school.

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Nazareth Pennsylvania was originally planned as a central English-speaking church village.

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Meanwhile, the Nazareth Pennsylvania tract was largely in the hand of Captain John, a Lenape chieftain who refused to leave, even though they no longer owned the land.

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Finally, in 1754, Nazareth Pennsylvania Hall was built in hopes that Count Zinzendorf would return from Europe and settle in Nazareth Pennsylvania permanently, but he never returned to the Americas.

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However, in 1759 Nazareth Pennsylvania Hall became the central boarding school for sons of Moravian parents.

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Nazareth Pennsylvania's climate is similar to the rest of the Lehigh Valley with four distinct seasons, humid summers, cold winters, and very short and mild springs and falls.

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Nazareth's topography can best be described as hilly, as the town itself sits atop a local outcropping underground of one of the richest veins of limestone in the U S Much of the farmland surrounding Nazareth is being converted into close sitting lots of suburban housing, for predominantly commuter households.

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News about the Nazareth Pennsylvania community is reported regularly in regional newspapers The Morning Call and The Express-Times daily newspapers and local shoppers, including The Nazareth Pennsylvania Times, The Home News, and The Key.

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Nazareth Pennsylvania was home to the Nazareth Pennsylvania Speedway, a one-mile tri-oval automobile racing course.

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Nazareth Pennsylvania is home to racing champions Mario Andretti and Michael Andretti, and third-generation driver Marco Andretti.

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13.

Nazareth Pennsylvania creates and markets its own brand of handicraft yarns under the Kraemer Yarns label.

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14.

Nazareth Pennsylvania spun the Merino wool yarn that was used in creating the end-to-end American-made sweaters produced by the Ralph Lauren Corporation for the athletes of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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