Atlas Cement Company Memorial Museum Private Tour

Step into Lehigh Valley history with a private tour of the Atlas Cement Company Memorial Museum on Saturday, June 28 at 1:00 PM.

The Atlas Cement Company Memorial Museum in Northampton PA commemorates the story of the world’s largest Portland cement plant and the community that developed around it. From 1895 until 1982, the Atlas Company (later known as Universal Atlas) produced Portland cement for some of the most iconic projects of the 20th century, including the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building.  Hundreds of workers dug millions of tons of the perfect combination of limestones for making Portland cement from quarries on the Jacksonburg Formation, the “cement belt” that stretches from Warren County New Jersey to eastern Berks County. By the 1940s, the plant employed over 5,000 people who jobs ranged from kilns men and crusher operators to chemists, baggers and the women who sewed and repaired the cement bags, to farmers who tended the draft horses and mules that moved carts around the plant and grew the hay and oats that fed them. 

The Atlas Cement Company Memorial Museum is the only Portland cement museum in the US. It tells the story of the cement plant and its workers through artifacts large and small, images, photographs, film and the words of the people who helped build our modern world. 

This exclusive event is limited to 25 participants. Registration is required, and DLNHC membership will be verified. While the tour is free of charge, a suggested $10 donation to support the museum is appreciated.