Some references and suggested websites:
- There are online (various degrees of credibility with these courses).
- Very short Wikipedia entry on Slatington, Pennsylvania
- Northern Lehigh School District (Wikipedia)
- History of Northern Lehigh School District (with timeline); A Century of Excellence
- Borough of Slatington (This is the town's official page with just a few small comments about its long history--not necessarily the most accurate comments). The same bit of history (with a regional map) is on the The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor website.
- My Calculations of the Changing Age Structure of Slatington from 1870 to 1940
- Information about the Slatington Historic District, which only recently received that designation, is very interesting reading. (I also have a copy of this as a *.PDF file).
- Brochure (*.PDF) of a "walking tour" of what is left of historic Slatington.
- The Fireman's Drinking Fountain is a National Park Service Historic Place.
- A short excerpt on "Slatington" from Koon's Illustrated History of the Lehigh Valley (*.PDF)--This is pretty darn old!
- The chapter on the "Borough of Slatington" (*.PDF) from the History of Lehigh County (1914) is the most complete treatment of the town in approximately 1900.
- "Borough of Slatington" (*.PDF) is an excerpt from History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1884), pp. 556-569.
- History of Lehigh County Pa by Daniel Rupp from 1845. This pre-dates the actual incorporation of Slatington as a borough; this is also available as a *.PDF.
- The Slatington News, 19 July 1876, reprinted the July 4th oration by D.D. Jones on the early history of Slatington.
- James Hauser, A History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (1902) (*.PDF) Please note that this is a very large file and might take a while to download. Interesting statistics are included. This reference can also be accessed online.
- History of Lehigh County Pennsylvania and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its Families, volume 3 and volume 2 (1914)
- Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1 (1905) and Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Vol. II
- Map of old Slatington (still working on this), here is one example.
