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The Methodist Episcopal Church, organized and built 1869, dedicated 10 December 1869, was located on the southwest corner of Center Street and Slate Alley. It is now a private residence.

678 Main Street, next to the current Slatington Library building.

Now an apartment building

The first floor has long been a bar.

On the corner of Williams and Diamond Streets. Currently a private care facility.

Built on site of waste pile from the Pen Lyn quarry

Sunland was a children's camp about a mile north of Slatington.

This is looking north, towards Blue Mountain, on First Street. The streets went from first to seventh (east to west) in the upper part of the town.

According to my cousin, "The earliest industrial building is just down Factory St. It was built by Robert McDowell, one of the industrial giants of the town, as a slate mantel factory. In its early years it served as the first borough hall and his…