Editing Fullerton, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:2020 - Lehigh Valley Mall - 7 - Allentown PA.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|[[Lehigh Valley Mall]] in Fullerton, the largest shopping mall in the [[Lehigh Valley]] with [[List of shopping malls in Pennsylvania|146 stores]]]]
Originally known as "Ferndale", the town was located on tracts of land originally settled by Giles Windsor (1767), Stephen Snyder (1786) and Jacob Yundt (1826).<ref>Gensey, p. 17</ref> In 1895, the town was renamed "Fullerton" in honor of local businessman [[James W. Fuller Jr.]], who had purchased the railroad car wheel factory of Frederick & Company in 1865 and operated it as McKee, Fuller & Co.<ref>Gensey, p. 94</ref> and later the Lehigh Car, Wheel & Axle Works.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Roberts |first=Charles R. |title=Place Names of Lehigh County and Their Origin |journal=Proceedings: Lehigh County Historical Society |year=1936 |publisher=Lehigh County Historical Society | location=Allentown, Pennsylvania}} Page 11.</ref> Fuller laid out the hamlet in 1870, and by 1883 it was a thriving [[company town]] with a population in excess of 1,500 men and their families. When the Lehigh Valley [[Portland cement|cement]] industry exploded in the early 1900s, Fuller's company prospered by providing machinery to the mills in the region, and the town supplied the workforce for both his factories, and the numerous mills and quarries operating in the immediate area.

The [[Dent Hardware Company Factory Complex]] in Fullerton was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1986.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>