Historic Sites in Birdsboro, PA

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The Daniel Boone Homestead, located near Reading, Pennsylvania, is a state historic site which preserves ...

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- Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is one of the finest examples of a rural American 19th century iron pl...

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In November of 1751, John Potts, iron master and merchant, entered into an indenture to purchase two tracts of land f...

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A disastrous fire destroyed the theater that stood at Philadelphia Ave. & Washington St. On Jan. 13 1908. It claimed ...

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Built 1737 by Anna Nutt and Co. Made first Franklin stoves, 1742. Supplied shot and cannon for American revolutionist...

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Founded in 1851 by the Rev. Matthew Meigs, The Hill School originally was known as the Family Boarding School and hou...

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Teamsters drove wagonloads of hot, newly made charcoal to this cooling shed. Paid by the load delivered, workers dump...

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Of the inns that were established in Pottstown in Colonial times that survived until Civil War days, The Farmer's Hot...

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In 1853, the Hopewell partners built a hot-blast anthracite furnace here. This new furnace did not burn charcoal but ...

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In 1886, Joseph M. Selinger moved his brewery from a stone building about a mile from Pottstown at Glasgow to a three...

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Reading, Pennsylvania honors Charles E. Duryea Inventor and builder of America's first gasoline automobile 1892 in Sp...

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Pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church from 1803 to 1829; Member of Congress, 1829-38; first U.S. Minister to Austria;...

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On his first visit to America 1682 - 1684 came farthest north on Schuylkill River fifty miles up from the Falls of Sc...

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In memory of Col. Conrad Weiser, Pioneer, soldier, diplomat, judge. As interpreter and Indian agent he negotiated eve...

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Abraham Weitzenkorn was born in Leitmar, Germany. He came to America at the age of 17, settled in Pottstown, and bega...

Daniel Boone Homestead