Cementon was originally known as "Siegfried's Ferry" as it is located directly across the Lehigh River from Siegfried, one of the three villages that would merge to become Northampton in 1902. In 1828, a bridge was built across the river, and the town became known as Siegfried's Bridge. After a large Whitehall Portland Cement Works quarry and mill were established in 1900–01, the town was renamed "Cementon".
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also put up at Cementon, in Whitehall, where a new congregation carries on religious worship. He conducted regular services in the Schnecksville schoolhouse and there too he established a congregation and chapel, but he resigned this parish in 1888.
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VILLAGES — Cementon, founded in 1770, by John Siegfried, aud contains stores, hotels, churches and a post office, and is on the Lehigh Valley R. R. Population in 1900, 500. West Catasauqua, a suburb of Catasauqua contains stores, hotels, foundries, factories of various kinds and graded schools. Population in 1900 was 600. Fullerton, founded in 1862, contains car shop, wheel and forge works, rolling mill, foundry, stores, hotels, churches, schools and post office.
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VILLAGES— Cementon, founded in 1770, by John Siegfried, aud contains stores, hotels, churches and a post office, and is on the Lehigh Valley R. R. Population in 1900, 500. West Catasauqua, a suburb of Catasauqua contains stores, hotels, foundries, factories of various kinds and graded schools. Population in 1900 was 600. FuUerton, founded in 1862, contains car shop, wheel and forge works, rolling mill, foundry, stores, hotels, churches, schools and post office.
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In 1908, he was elected pastor of the Egypt charge, consisting of the Egypt, Cementon and Laury’s congregations, and was installed Nov. 29, 1908. Rev. Leopold is a powerful and pleasing pulpit orator and has endeared himself to his parishioners. In 1911, under the new school code passed by the Legislature in that year, he was elected to a six-year term as one of the nine school
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