Hamburg

Hamburg Hamburg, which sits at the intersection of the Schuylkill Canal, the railroad and the Centre Turnpike, was the site of some of the early industry in Pennsylvania’s Americana Region. It has been said that the town with mills and early factories had more jobs per capita than any other town of…

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Boyertown

Boyertown Boyertown is theoretically the oldest historic town in Pennsylvania’s Americana Region, since the land the town was built on was part of a transaction given by the English crown to Thomas Baylor in 1601. King Charles later gave the same land to William Penn, who began his Holy Experiment…

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Kutztown

Kutztown Kutztown came early to the Pennsylvania Americana Region when George Kutz laid out a town in 1785 that was settled mostly by Germans who hailed from the Palatinate along the Rhine River in Germany. Being one days ride from Allentown and Reading, Kutztown grew during the colonial period as…

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West Reading

West Reading It took almost 60 years for Reading to cross the river to become West Reading, its first suburb. Building began here in 1810. Within the past two hundred years, this thriving borough has become a very delightful walkable downtown with shops, restaurants and unique boutiques. A close…

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Centre Park Historic District

Centre Park Historic District Starting in the 1850s, Centre Avenue, in what is now Centre Park Historic District, became a fashionable address for the newly wealthy industrialists. Block after block of freestanding “country” mansions were connected to downtown by a trolley in the late 1880s. By…

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