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Moravian College, tracing its founding to 1742, is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college, after Harvard (1636), William and Mary (1693), St. John's in Annapolis (1696), Yale (1701), and the University of Pennsylvania (1740).
At one time it was a girls' boarding school, the first of its kind in the US. George Washington petitioned the headmaster to admit his two grand-neices.
In 1954, after two centuries of the men's and women's colleges growing on their own, the schools combinded to become co-ed. As a result of the merger, Moravian College became the Lehigh Valley's first coeducational institution of higher education.
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