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In 1924 'Woking Offers' free paper advertising local traders started. By 1928 'Woking Offers' was renamed 'Woking Outlook' to be renamed 'Woking Review' in 1933. It is believed to be the oldest free newspaper in Britain. In 1924 Waterer's Park was left to Woking U.D.C. by Anthony Waterer of Knaphill Nursery. Knaphill Football Club started ...
Location of Berks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
Year Name 1 1895 Gustav Friedrich Wermig 2 1898 George Harris 3 1903 William Burne 4 1904 Henry William Gloster 5 1905 Patrick Herbert White 6
Southeastern Pennsylvania was the leading producer of grain in the colonial period and mills could be easily powered by the steep descent of the streams, called the Fall Line, in the area. By 1781 there were 127 gristmills in Chester County, which then included present-day Delaware County . [ 11 ]
Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends to thousands of years before the foundation of the Province of Pennsylvania. Archaeologists generally believe that the first settlement of the Americas occurred at least 15,000 years ago during the last glacial period , though it is unclear when humans first entered present-day Pennsylvania.
A map of Pennsylvania and the competing land claims during the colonial era A map of Pennsylvania counties in 1836; at the time, Lackawanna and Wyoming were still part of Luzerne County. The name Wyoming derives from the Lenape Munsee name xwéːwamənk, meaning "at the big river flat." [4]
The company built a power station in Board School Road, Woking (51°19’26”N, 00°33’01”W) [2] which was commissioned in 1890. [3] The Woking Electric Supply Company Limited was formed on 5 December 1895 to acquire the Woking Electricity Supply Company. [3] The company undertook a major upgrade of the plant in 1918–28.
Between 1723 and 1729, a group of immigrants from Germany who had initially made their homes in New York's Schoharie region, relocated to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Opting to settle in what was then known as the Tulpehocken Valley (a name which meant "Land of Turtles" in the language of the area's Native American residents), they became citizens of Middle Town when their community was renamed ...