Lower Milford Historical Society

08/17/2023

Early 1900s photo of Charles Yoachim, left, clerk of deeds of Limeport, and Melvin Shaffer, sand salesman of Allentown, enjoying a buggy ride through the countryside.

05/29/2023

Invoice from Schaffers store 1905

05/21/2023

02/12/2023

A teacher poses with her 23 pupils in front of the Limeport School, February 15, 1911. It is February, and if I'm not mistaken, there is snow on the ground. Those poor kids must have been freezing!

05/30/2022

Dillingersville General Store on Dillingersville Road, Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, PA, in the early 1900s.

04/16/2022

The Milford Cornet Band of Limeport, PA was organized in 1860, disbanded in 1869, revived in 1908 then discontinued in 1913 due to disagreements among its members. However, when they played, the band was much in demand. The local papers reported that they played picnics, parades, fairs, and halls.

01/28/2022

1950 photo of the St. Paul's Blue Church Cemetary on Apple Butter Hill, 5900 Applebutter Hill Rd,. Upper Saucon Township, PA. The signpost gives the distances to Emmaus and Limeport. The cemetery is located across the road from the church. The woman in the photo is unidentified. The Blue Church Lutheran congregation purchased this property in the early 1740s.

03/09/2021

Located outside of Lower Milford on Saucon Valley Road

Early 1900s photo of the Lanark School, formally known as Hellers. Mary Jenkins, the first woman teacher to teach in Lehigh County, taught at the school beginning in 1848. The building in this photo is an 1895 replacement of the original schoolhouse. When a more modern school was built in 1942, the Lanark School closed.

10/12/2020

Looking east on Dillingersville Road at Zionsville Road, village of Dillingersville, Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County. Erwin Kramer’s store can be seen at left and it was attached to the house; unfortunately, a fire in 1918 destroyed or damaged much of the overall structure.

09/08/2020

It’s been awhile since we posted here, so I thought....Why not have a little Q&A session. Anybody can ask a question, and anybody can answer a question. As long as it is historical in nature, and it can be about anywhere in the Southern Lehigh area-not just Lower Milford. Maybe we can each learn a little something!

02/01/2020

Dillinger Tunnel