Berks County Links
P.O. Box 197, Kempton, PA, USA, 19529
www.co.berks.pa.us/albany/guestaccount/login.asp
Albany Township, Berks County’s second largest municipality and often referred to as “the environmentalist’s paradise” is situated north of Interstate Route 78, at the northern tip of the County. Like most of the county, the first settlers to the ...
425 Chestnut Street, Bally, PA, USA, 19503
www.co.berks.pa.us/bally/site/default.asp
Located in scenic Berks County between Allentown and Reading, the Borough of Bally is a legal municipality under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Borough was incorporated in 1912. The Borough uses the Council/Manager form of government in which the ...
1069 Old Bernville Road, Reading, PA, USA, 19605
www.co.berks.pa.us/bern/site/default.asp
Link to Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
202 E. Main Street, Birdsboro, PA, USA, 19508
Birdsboro was named after its founder, William Bird, who took warrants for land on Haycreek Road and, later, Six Penny Creek as early as 1737. On the banks of Haycreek, he established a forge in about 1740, which was followed by other forges along the cre ...
889 Alleghenyville Road, Mohnton, PA, USA, 19540
Brecknock Township, named after the cathedral town of Brecon, capitol of Breconshire (or Brecknockshire), Wales, was founded in 1740 as a part of Lancaster County. The Township was divided at the founding of Berks County in 1752. The earliest permanent ...
3226 Main Street, Morgantown, PA, USA, 19543
Caernarvon is a Welsh word, based on Caer Yr Arfon - "Fort (Caer) on the River (Arfon)." As with so many places between Philadelphia and Lancaster, the area was first settled by the hardy Welsh. To them, the rolling hills and flowing streams reminded them ...
815 Washington Street, Reading, PA, USA, 19601
In 1733, the site of present day Reading was chosen. It was set at the intersection of two great valleys, the east Penn-Lebanon Valley and the Schuylkill river. This site was known as Finney's Ford until 1743 when Thomas Lawrence, a Penn Land agent, made ...
765 W. Philadelphia Avenue, Boyertown, PA, USA, 19512
No diaries, journals or letters from our initial settlers survive and it may be safely assumed at this late date that none exist. Until the availability of documents of the first industrialization of the iron industry, beginning in 1716 to 1720, the only ...
1775 Welsh Road, Mohnton, PA, USA, 19540
When Cumru Township was first founded in 1737, it included Spring Township and the boroughs of Kenhorst, Mohnton, and Shillington and some areas that were incorporated into Reading. Hugh Jones bought one thousand acres of land in Cumru Township in 1732 an ...
202 Weil Road, Boyertown, PA, USA, 19512
Settlers pushed their way up the Schuylkill Valley and its principal tributaries into the historic “Oley Hills.” As settlement began above the “Oley Hills,” the new area was called the district between Oley and Colebrookdale. The settlements extended more ...
1068 Douglass Drive, Boyertown, PA, USA, 19512
Link to Douglass Township, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
4975 DeMoss Road, Reading, PA, USA, 19606
www.exetertownship.com/Pages/HomePage.aspx
The year 1701 is believed to be the year that Berks County was first settled. Swedes, relocating from the Philadelphia and Delaware River areas, settled in what is now Amity Township. In 1712, Isaac DeTurk moved from Esopus, New York to Oley and b ...
61 North 3rd Street, Hamburg, PA, USA, 19526
Link to Hamburg Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
339 South Kenhort Boulevard, Kenhorst, PA, USA, 19607
www.co.berks.pa.us/kenhorst/site/default.asp
Berks County might still have only 29 boroughs if the residents of Cumru Township had not become perturbed over what they described as an exorbitant streetlight tax, lack of fire protection and street improvements. Those complaints led to the birth of ...
45 Railroad Street, Kutztown, PA, USA, 19530
Link to Kutztown Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
3406 Kutztown Road, Laureldale, PA, USA, 19605
According to early reports, it was Clayton N. Fidler who suggested that the name "Laurel" be taken from Laurel Hill and be combined with the "dale" in Rosedale to form the favored name of Laureldale. It was this name that was then employed when steps were ...
1112 State Street, Mertztown, PA, USA, 19539
Link to Longswamp Township, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
720 Brownsville Road, Sinking Spring, PA, USA, 19608
The Lower Heidelberg Township has a long and illustrious history that dates to the arrival of German and Welsh immigrants in the late 1720's. Pick up a driving tour and history book at our Township building and wind your way over our colorful country r ...
316 South Kemp Street, Lyons Station, PA, USA, 19536
1700 Farmers from the Oley Valley begin migrating north into the area that would become the Borough of Lyons 1846 A large three story hotel - later called the Lyons Hotel is built close to where the railroad line would run 1850 the East Penn Branch ...
1 Quarry Road, Blandon, PA, USA, 19510
Maidencreek Township was established in December of 1746 and was named after the creek that runs diagonally through the township. Quakers originally settled the area in 1732 and lived peacefully among the Lenni Lenape Indians. Around 1800, the Quake ...
127 Quarry Road, Kutztown, PA, USA, 19530
A petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County on September 6, 1742, praying for the erection of a new township out of a part of said county. George Boone, Esq., a draft of which was attached to the petition; and William ...
21 North O'Neill Street, Mohnton, PA, USA, 19540
www.co.berks.pa.us/mohnton/guestaccount/login.asp
Link to Mohnton Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
75 Grace Bourlevard, Morgantown, PA, USA, 19543
Link to New Morgan Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
2689 Main Street, Birdsboro, PA, USA, 19508
Robeson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania was established in 1729, named for either Andrew Robeson, Jr. or his son Israel Robeson. Andrew Robeson, Jr. bought 600 acres of land in 1716 in what would become Robeson Township. He never lived on this lan ...
2 E. Lancaster Avenue, Shillington, PA, USA, 19607
www.co.berks.pa.us/shillington/site/default.asp
In tracing the history of the Borough of Shillington, it was found that patents for portions of its area were granted by the Penns in 1733, 1735 and 1736. A part of the Borough was known as the Three-Mile House as early as 1762. In 1860, the communit ...
3940 Penn Avenue, Sinking Spring, PA, USA, 19608
www.co.berks.pa.us/sinkingspring/site/default.asp
Link to Sinking Spring Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
2800 Shillington Road, Sinking Spring, PA, USA, 19608
In 1850, the Township of Cumru included about 33,000 acres of land. The population numbered about 3,853 making it the most populous district in the county outside of Reading. In area, this was the largest township. In the decade before, two unsuccessful a ...
