Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Northampton, PA

Northampton is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, created in 1902 when the three villages of Siegfried, Newport, and Stemton unified — first as the Borough of Alliance before taking the Northampton name.

Northampton became a global center of cement manufacturing thanks to the region's limestone: the Atlas Portland Cement Company, for much of the 20th century the largest cement company in the world, operated here from 1895 until 1982.

Atlas produced some eight million barrels of cement in Northampton for the construction of the Panama Canal — most of the cement used to build the canal.

In 1909 the Atlas company itself petitioned the county courts to formalize the borough, reportedly because borough status made it easier for the company to send and receive mail.

Northampton had a population of 10,395 at the 2020 census, living in about 4,320 households.

The Lehigh River forms Northampton's western border with Lehigh County, and the borough sits about eight miles north of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley.

Northampton's cement heritage lives on in its schools: the Northampton Area School District mascot is the Konkrete Kid, a nod to the Atlas Portland Cement Company.

Northampton Area High School is nationally known for wrestling — its Konkrete Kids have won two national titles and seven PIAA state team championships, with 21 individual state champions.

The Atlas Cement Company Memorial Museum, opened in 1997, preserves the story of the cement industry and the immigrant workers from Poland, Ukraine, Austria, and other eastern European nations who powered it.

Northampton holds the Jack Frost Parade every October before Halloween, a tradition celebrating the onset of winter with marching bands and floats.