Editing Nazareth, Pennsylvania (section)

===20th and 21st centuries===
Up until the mid-1900s, a large part of Nazareth's population was of [[Germany|German]] origin, better known as the [[Pennsylvania Dutch]]. "Dutch" is a corruption of the word "Deutsch", which is German for "German."  The Pennsylvania Dutch were spread throughout many counties of southern and central Pennsylvania. Many Pennsylvania Dutch also came from [[Switzerland]] and the [[Alsace]] region of France, in addition to the modern nation of Germany,

Nazareth's residents' religion reflected a largely German background in evangelical churches of fairly large sizes for such a small town, divided among the Moravian, [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]], Reformed (now part of the [[United Church of Christ]]), and [[Roman Catholic]] worship centers of the town. The town also hosted a fairly sizable [[Italian people|Italian]] and [[Polish people|Polish]] population, which largely attended Holy Family Catholic Church, in the area.

During a great immigration to the eastern Pennsylvania counties of the late 1900s from [[New Jersey]] and [[New York (state)|New York]], the population expanded significantly. Developers from the New Jersey area were responding to tighter controls and regulations on new construction in the state of New Jersey by moving their enterprises to Pennsylvania.

This new expansion and housing boom was enabled by the local completion of the interstate system of highways, first begun by former U.S. President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] in the 1950s. In the Nazareth area, this was caused by the completion of the nearby Pennsylvania Route 33, which ran north and south, thereby connecting [[Interstate 78]], [[U.S. Route 22]], and [[Interstate 80]], all of which ran east–west, and the completion of the Interstate 78 southern [[Lehigh Valley]] corridor high speed interstate, which connected the Lehigh Valley to New Jersey and [[New York City]] to the east and [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]] and [[Pittsburgh]] to the west.

The [[Nazareth Historic District]] was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.<ref name="nris"/>