Quick Summary:
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a city well known throughout the country for its industrial history.
- For almost 100 years, the city revolved around the Bethlehem Steel plant, which played an important role in American development and industry.
- The plant was permanently closed in 1995 and has since been transformed into a cultural center celebrating various art forms.
- Stay at the Historic Hotel Bethlehem, which has been restored to its original 1922 grandeur and has hosted many celebrity guests and heads of state.
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Burnside Plantation
Banana Factory Arts and Education Center
Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts
Colonial Industrial Quarter
Historic Bethlehem Tours
Hoover Mason Trestle
Lit Roastery and Bakeshop
Moravian Museum of Bethlehem
National Museum of Industrial History
Fegley's Brew Works
SteelStacks
Billy's Downtown Diner
Wind Creek Bethlehem
Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum, Inc.
Black River Farms
Lehigh Millennium Folk Arch and Art Enclave
Captured LV Escape Room
Freefall Trampoline Park
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