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"Em'aus, or Em’mans, a post-borough of Lehigh co., Pa., on the East Pennsylvania and Perkiomen Railroads, 6 miles S.S.W. of Amentown. It has 4 churches, 3 public halls, 2 hotels, an iron-furnace, and 3 cigar-factories. Pop. 883."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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- 1759 - Emmaus founded
www.wikipedia.org - In 1859, the East Pennsylvania Railroad (later part of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad) brought trains to Emmaus.
www.wikipedia.org - 1869 - Emmaus - the town's first blast furnace opened.
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Public School
St. John's Lutheran Church- 1943 - Emmaus - Donaldson Iron Company closes
The largest iron company was Donaldson Iron Company, which made cast iron pipes and other products until the company closed in 1943.
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Moravian Church
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