| Nazareth is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
Nazareth is located seven miles (11 km) northwest of Easton, four miles north of Bethlehem and twelve miles northeast of Allentown. It is located in the center of Northampton County, and is part of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region.
Nazareth is located at 40°44′24″N, 75°18′40″W (40.739993, -75.311214)[1].
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.3 km²), all of it land.
Nazareth's climate is similar to the rest of the Lehigh Valley, with four distinct seasons, humid summers, cold winters, and very short and mild springs and falls. Nazareth's topography can best be described as hilly, as the town itself sits atop a local outcropping underground of one of the richest veins of limestone in the U.S. Farmland surrounding Nazareth is quickly being devoured and turned into close sitting lots of suburban housing, designed especially to accommodate the massive influx of New Jersey and New York City residents in recent years.
Nazareth was founded in 1740 by wandering Moravian immigrants who had been evicted from Georgia, as a missionary settlement when they were commissioned by George Whitfield to build the Whitfield House. The house was to be a school for orphaned black children, but by the time it was finished, the landlord had gone bankrupt, so the Whitfield House was never used for its original purpose. The Moravians were then evicted from Nazareth after an argument with their landlord over the religious belief of Transubstantiation, so they settled in neighboring Bethlehem. Shortly thereafter, the Moravian settlers bought Nazareth from their former landlord, and returned to settle in Nazareth.
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