George Taylor was an American ironmaster and politician who was a Founding Father of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania. His former home, the George Taylor House in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, was named a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
A letter signed by Taylor, dated November 1780, refers to business in his trade of ironmongery
Durham Iron Works, as rebuilt in 1874. Illustration from William Watts Hart Davis' History of Bucks County, 1876.
Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
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Catasauqua, referred to colloquially as Catty, is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Catasauqua's population was 6,518 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
Dery Silk Mill in the Biery's Port Historic District of Catasauqua in October 2012
A pre-1923 sketch of Bridge Street Presbyterian Church, founded in 1850 in Catasauqua
The George Taylor House in Catasauqua, home of George Taylor, a Founding Father of the United States who signed the Declaration of Independence
Race Street in Catasauqua