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The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as Wokingham District, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Wokingham and Wokingham Rural District. It is governed by Wokingham Borough Council (formerly Wokingham District Council), which has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1998, following the abolition of ...
The Coal Region is a term used to refer to an area of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Appalachian Mountains. The region is home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated a reserve of seven billion tons. Schuylkill; Carbon; Northumberland; Columbia; Luzerne; Lackawanna
Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania and sixth-largest city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797, and the center of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area, the state's largest metropolitan statistical area and nation's seventh-largest with a population of 6,245,051 Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, and the center of Greater ...
The Office of Management and Budget [17] has designated Berks County as the Reading, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 U.S. census [ 18 ] the metropolitan area is the 10th-most populous in Pennsylvania and the 128th-most populous in the U.S. with a population of 413,491.
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
A successor parish called Wokingham covering the area of the former borough was created in 1974, with its council taking the name Wokingham Town Council. [19] Wokingham District Council became a unitary authority in 1998 when it took over county-level functions from the abolished Berkshire County Council. [20]
By 1966, PA 724 was assigned to its current alignment and replaced the portion of PA 183 (which replaced PA 83 in 1961) between the Reading area and Phoenixville. PA 724 was referenced in Hall & Oates ' 1973 album Abandoned Luncheonette , with the defunct Rosedale Diner that was located along the route near Pottstown on the album cover.