is the government’s best asset. He was successively assistant general superintendent, general superintendent and since October, 1908, vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel Company; first vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; second vice-president Juragua Iron Company; vice-president Bethlehem Steel Products Company; Bethlehem Iron Mines Company." Johnston retired from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1927, and remained a member of the board of his directors until his death in 1948. Civic leadership Johnston, with support from Bethlehem Steel Corporation, was an advocate of the consolidation of the boroughs of Bethlehem, South Bethlehem, and Northampton Heights, and in 1917, after a successful consolidation election, the boroughs were merged into the modern city of Bethlehem. He served as mayor for one four-year term from 1917 to 1921 as a Republican. During his period as mayor, a commission to construct a bridge to replace a covered bridge across the Lehigh River was formed. Johnston was chairman of the commission, and in 1921, a three-year construction project began on what was to become the Hill to Hill Bridge. The bridge became the physical manifestation of the unification of the two boroughs and remains the primary traffic artery between the northern and southern portions of the city. Johnston also had a leadership role in the Wild Creek Project, a system of reservoirs and aqueducts bringing water from Penn Forest Township in Carbon County to new distribution reservoirs in Bethlehem and Fountain Hill. The project, in part replacing the Monocacy Creek along the banks of the Monocacy Creek on Bethlehem's north side, was completed before the United States's entry into World War II. Johnston was the president of the Central Moravian Congregation (Central Moravian Church), a trustee of Moravian College, and sat on local corporate and non-profit boards of directors. In 1958, Moravian College named its field house “Archibald Johnston Hall” in recognition of his service to the institution. Later life In the middle of the 19th century, Northampton County was primarily agricultural, settled by Moravians and Pennsylvania Germans. The Monocacy Creek ran north from its confluence with the Lehigh River in the then-borough of Bethlehem to multiple headwaters in the central part of the county. Along this creek were "Pine Top Hill" and "Quaker Hill". Johnston began acquiring land in the northern portion of the city of Bethlehem and Bethlehem Township in 1919 in order to construct a home for his family. The parcels he purchased extended