Zion's Reformed Church, Allentown, PA

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $15.95

Stock #:1184840
Type: Postcard
City: Allentown
State: Pennsylvania (PA)
County: Lehigh
Publisher: Griesemer Stationery Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: A-13609
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John Jacob Mickley, of Northampton County now Lehigh County, Pa., who under cover of darkness and with his farm team hauled the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall Philadelphia through the British lines to Bethlehem where the wagon broke down Sept. 23, 1777. The Bell was then transferred to Frederick Leiser's wagon and brought to Allentown Sept 24, 1777. It was placed beneath the floor of Zions Reformed Church, where it remained sacred for nearly a year.

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