Alburtis’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 5 old photos of Alburtis. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Alburtis was incorporated on May 9, 1913, by the merger of two villages, Alburtis and Lock Ridge, both of which were settled in the mid-1800s. Alburtis was named for Edward K. Alburtis, a civil engineer involved in the construction of the East Pennsylvania Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway. When a railroad station was established in the village in 1859, the railroad's board of directors named the town in his honor.
A tract adjacent to Alburtis was purchased by the Lockridge Iron Company for the construction of blast furnaces in the late 1860s. This area, which grew into a separate village, is known as Lock Ridge Park.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Alburtis’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Alburtis’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewAlburtis and Lockridge, Lehigh Co…, 1893: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Alburtis
See all 1 →Alburtis, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Alburtis and Lockridge, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania 1893 (1893) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (9), the Library of Congress (2) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.