Each month the Atlas Cement Company Memorial Museum honors and recognizes an employee of the area cement industry  to keep alive the industry's contribution to the Lehigh Valley and the world. These are published in The Northampton Press

The five remaining plants are

• Keystone Cement in Bath,
• Lafarge in Whitehall,
• ESSROC in Nazareth,
• Allentown Cement in Evansville and
• Hercules Cement in Stockertown.
  
  Employees honored since 1997 are:
  Richard Haas - Lafarge
  George Gasper - Keystone
  James Roth - ESSROC
  Richard Sakasitz - Hercules
  Richard Hottenstein - Allentown
  Herb Johns - Lafarge
  Richard Bealer - Keystone
  Nicholas Viglione, Jr. - ESSROC
  Robert Schnabel - Allentown
  Bruce Jones - Hercules
  Robert Sickonic - Lafarge
  Robert Aichele - Keystone
  Richard Fox - ESSROC
  William Didyoung, Sr. - Allentown
  Reuben Snyder - Lafarge
  Ronald Silfies - Keystone
  Jonathan Wolfel - Paper Allied Industrial Chemical and Energy Workers International Union
  George Prebula - Allentown
  Jack Gallop - Hercules
  Ana Kish - Keystone
  Rick Gaston - ESSROC
  George and Robert Mayer - Allentown

The Atlas Spirit

The museum, housed in a spectacular wing of the Northampton Borough Municipal Government Building is made possible by a grant from the US Generating Company, which operates a power plant on the Atlas site through its Northampton Generating Company subsidiary.

The museum chronicles the history of cement production at the Atlas from its humble beginnings in 1895 to its development into the largest Portland Cement Company in the world. Displays, storyboards, and videos depict the Atlas quarry, farms, cooper shop, bag factory, office, and laboratory.

Other displays capture the use of Atlas Cement in the construction of renowned projects such as the Panama Canal, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Holland Tunnel.

The cornerstone of the museum is a breathtaking, larger-than-life mural in which artist Roger Firestone captures The Atlas Spirit in the faces of the men and women as they glance admiringly through the heavens at the Atlas plant, in the structures its cement helped build, and in the new power plant. The mural also features the borough's oldest building, the Wilson Block House, built in 1756.

The museum pays tribute to the employees and communities that helped make the Atlas Portland Cement Company a successful industrial enterprise. Local historian Edward Pany single-handedly researched and gathered the names of more than 2,500 Atlas men and women which adorn a wall memorial in a corridor adjoining the museum. Many of the Atlas employees came from the local community and surrounding areas. Others immigrated from Central Europe to pursue job opportunities in the United States of America, in particular, work provided by the Atlas Portland Cement Company.