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1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1896 on and old-book passages.
Egypt dates its founding to 1733 (Wikipedia’s history). Its post office opened in 1870.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Egypt’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveFort Deshler Blockhouse 1895From Wikipedia’s history of Egypt.
Egypt is one of the oldest communities in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It was settled as early as 1733. It was the first settlement in Pennsylvania north of South Mountain. Egypt is one several Lehigh Valley locations, including Bethlehem, Nazareth, Emmaus, and Allentown's Jordan Creek, whose name was inspired by locations referenced in the Bible.
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Passages that mention Egypt, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Coptic is the most ancient language of Egypt. This was succceeded by the Greek, about the time of Alexander the Great ; and that by the Arabic, upon the commencement of the Califate, when the Arabs dispossessed, the Greeks of Egypt.
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tractable. The hippopotamus, or the river horse, an amphibious animal, resembling an ox in its hinder parts, with the head like a horse, is common in U pper Egypt. Tygers, hyenas, camels, antelopes, apes, with the head like a dog, and the rat, called icheumon, are natives of Egypt. The camelion, a little animal something resembling a lizard, that
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Egypt’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
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Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1733, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Egypt’s post office opened in 1870.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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