Kern Settlers

Nicholas Kern, the area’s first settler, emigrated from the Palatinate area of Germany circa 1730 aboard the ship Adventurer. After acquiring 700 acres in present-day Slatington, he moved his family from South Whitehall Township. The Kerns were lower Slatington’s principal settlers until the discovery of slate, and present-day Slatington was originally known as Kern’s Mills and later as Kernsport.

Slatington, Pennsylvania · United States