Newside is a small hamlet in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, located four miles west of the town of Neffs, at the corner of Park Avenue and Newside Road. It is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area.
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Neffs is a small village that is located mainly in North Whitehall Township and also partially in Washington Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Neffs is located at the junction of Pennsylvania Routes 873 and 329, approximately one mile north of Schnecksville.
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Schlicher Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at North Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 108-foot-long, Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1882. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof. It crosses Jordan Creek.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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The Trexler Nature Preserve is an 1,108-acre county park owned and maintained by Lehigh County in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. The preserve is situated in Lowhill Township and North Whitehall Township near the community of Schnecksville. The land that comprises the preserve was originally purchased between 1901 and 1911 by local industrialist General Harry Clay Trexler.
It was originally Trexler's desire to stock the preserve with big game animals such as bison, elk, and deer with the express goal of saving bison in North American. When Trexler died in 1933, the preserve, in accordance with his will, passed to the care of Lehigh County. Lehigh County assumed title in 1935 and has been in control of the site ever since. In May 1975, the county opened the Lehigh Valley Zoo on the grounds of the preserve.
In 2004, Lehigh County reduced its budgets and proposed closing the zoo portion of the preserve. A local group, the Lehigh Valley Zoological Society, formed to assume private control of the zoo under a lease arrangement with Lehigh County. Concurrent with the transfer of the zoo to private control, the Trexler Trust brought civil suit against the County of Lehigh demanding, under the terms of Trexler's will, that the entire preserve be opened to public use and that public funds be devoted to that public use.
The county, under pressure from the Trexler Trust, acceded to a settlement in 2006. As part of this settlement, Lehigh County agreed to open the entire preserve to public use and to rename the non-zoo portion of the park from the "Trexler Game Preserve" to the "Trexler Nature Preserve". Since re-opening the entire preserve to public use, extensive efforts have been made to increase passive recreational activities, such as hiking and mountain biking, by building an extensive trail system and archery hunting and fishing by changing cull policies and stocking Jordan Creek. Invasive plants, which colonized large parts of the preserve after nearly a century of range practices, were largely removed.
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Schnecksville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of Schnecksville was 2,935 at the 2010 census.
Schnecksville is a suburb of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area of the United States, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. Its U.S. postal code is 18078.
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The Lehigh Valley Zoo is a 29-acre zoo located in Schnecksville in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It is located inside the 1,100-acre Trexler Nature Preserve. The zoo is open year-round.
Lehigh Valley Zoo has been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums since March 2006.