Brass 7 x 2-inch key to the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with the city's seal and inscribed with '1762, Allentown, Penna'. Allentown was laid out as Northampton Town in 1762 by William Allen, a shipping merchant, former mayor of the city of Philadelphia and then-Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania. The town was officially renamed Allentown in 1838. Donated by Joseph Daddona, Mayor of Allentown; occasion information was not provided to the City Clerk's office.