About Muhlenberg College

Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts educational in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is affiliated bearing in mind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the German patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.

Allentown (Pennsylvania German: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is a city in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is Pennsylvania’s third-most-populous city and the 233rd-largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a sum population of 118,032. As of 2019, it is the fastest growing major city in Pennsylvania as soon as an estimated 121,442 residents. It is the county chair of Lehigh County and the largest city in the metropolitan area known as the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 821,623 residents as of 2010. The city, founded in 1762, celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2012.

Located on the Lehigh River, Allentown is the largest of three next cities (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton) in Northampton and Lehigh counties that make happening the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Allentown is nearly 55 miles (89 km) north-northwest of Philadelphia, the sixth-most populous city in the US, 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Scranton and the Wyoming Valley, 80 miles (130 km) east-northeast of Harrisburg, the come clean capital, and 85 miles (137 km) west of New York City, the nation’s largest city.

Allentown was one of by yourself six communities in the country to have been named a “national skill story” in April 2016 by the Urban Land Institute for its downtown redevelopment and transformation that has generated nearly $1 billion in further development projects as of April 2019.