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Encompassing a total of 17,000 acres, this district stretches from the Tulpehocken Creek and Mill Creek at the Berks County-Lebanon County line to the Blue March Dam between Bernville and Millardsville, [2] and is composed of 152 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures which were related to the ...
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Berks County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Barricks Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census , the county's population was 428,849. [ 2 ] The county seat is Reading , the fourth-most populous city in the state. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Maidencreek Township is a Pennsylvania second class township that includes four villages, Blandon, Evansville, Maidencreek, and Molltown. Emergency services are provided by the Northern Berks Regional Police Department, Blandon Fire Company, and Blandon Ambulance, all of which are dispatched by the Berks County Communications Center.
As of 2019, there were 113.48 miles (182.63 km) of public roads in Greenwich Township, of which 34.01 miles (54.73 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 79.47 miles (127.89 km) were maintained by the township.
Hopewell Furnace stove, 10-plate cooking model, with a lower firebox and upper oven for baking. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace.
This district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. They are the iron furnace stack (1789), a stone and frame bank barn (c. 1830-1860), the manager's house and office (c. 1830-1860), a blacksmith shop (1854), a charcoal house (c. 1850), a stone dam, and a small stone house (c. 1830-1850).