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In 1682, William Penn had signed a peace agreement with the Lenape tribe, however, German settlers forced the Lenape out of Berks County through the 1737 Walking Purchase and other land purchases that the Lenape regarded as unfair. The Lenape were pushed up the Schuylkill River over time. They then moved out of Berks County and westward towards ...
Lost in Pennsylvania? Try the Published Pennsylvania Archives by Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, M.L.S., 1999, The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania [1]; Guide to the Published Archives of Pennsylvania Covering the 138 Volumes of Colonial records and Pennsylvania Archives, Series I-IX by Henry Howard, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1949 [2] [3]
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 ]
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This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Berks County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
The Berks History Center is located at 940 Centre Ave, Reading, PA. [3] The museum has a historical object collection exceeding 20,000 items. Included are works of art by Ben Austrian, Jack Coggins, Ralph D. Dunkelberger, G.B. Kostenbader, Earle Poole, E.S. Reeser, Christopher Shearer, Victor Shearer, and Frederick Spang.
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There are 140 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Two sites are further designated a National Historic Landmark and another is a National Historic Site . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 31, 2025.