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Orr's Ranch
Orr's was a department store located in downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Overview Orr's of Easton was begun by Matthew Orr and later sold to the Bixlers. In 1955, Orr's was opened in Bethlehem when the Bush & Bull store closed after operating in that location from 1908. Lerch & Rice Co. operated a store in the same location from 1821 to 1908. In the 1970s, Bethlehem's downtown was declining, similar to that of neighboring Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown and Easton, Pennsylvania, Easton. The block of W. Broad Street was closed off from Guetter Street to N. New Street to create an outdoor pedestrian mall. This plan failed and was re-opened as a street. Bethlehem's downtown had continued to struggle, and in 1993, Orr's of Bethlehem closed. The building was renovated into an indoor mall, Main Street Commons. The parking deck adjacent to Orr's was kept and is still in use for the mall today. The Easton location also closed and was renovated to The Crayola Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton is a city in, and the county seat of, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Easton is located at the confluence of the Lehigh River, a river that joins the Delaware River in Easton and serves as the city's eastern geographic boundary with Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Easton is the easternmost city in the Lehigh Valley, a region of that is Pennsylvania's third largest Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan region with 861,889 residents as of the 2020 United States census, U.S. 2020 census. Of the Valley's three major cities, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, and Easton, Easton is the smallest with approximately one-fourth the population of Allentown, the Valley's largest city. The greater Easton area includes the city of Easton, three townships (Forks Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Forks, Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
