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Old Place Names and Their Locations The following list is just a small collection of old place names and their locations. If you know of a place that is hard to locate, please submit it to Nancy. Old Place Names and Their Locations Place Name Location Allemangel Albany Twp. Allendale Heights Located in Perry Twp. … Read more
Old Street Names The street names in the left column came from the Directory of Reading, 1806. The street names were changed August 6, 1833. Old Street Names Old Name New Name King Street 3rd Street Queen Street 4th Street Callowhill Street 5th Street Prince Street 6th Street Duke Street 7th Street Earl Street 8th … Read more
Strausstown John Strauss, who had a large farm in the vicinity of what is now Strausstown, laid out the town in 1840. As he owned most of the land upon which the town grew, it was named after him. Three parties owned the land that is now the site of Strausstown: John Strauss, John Batteiger … Read more
Early History of Tilden Township Source: The History of Berks County, Pennsylvania by F.W. Balthaser (1925), pages 250-251: Tilden Township was taken from Upper Bern in 1887 and organized as a separate district. It was named after Samuel J. TILDEN, the unsuccessful candidate for president in 1876. It lies just south of the Blue Mountains … Read more
Robert Morris The subject of this sketch, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Freeport, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, September 27, 1804, and came to this country with his parents, James and Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Morris, in 1819. The family first located in Indiana county, from which they soon removed, however, to Greensburg; … Read more
JAMES DOUTT A native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, born November 10, 1832, now a resident of Armstrong. James Doutt, thrown upon his own resources at the early age of fourteen years with no capital save industry finds himself in the prime of his manhood enjoying a well earned independency. His first work was performed for … Read more
John E. Brown, Esq. A history of Armstrong county would be radically incomplete without a sketch of James R. Brown, Esq., who, more than any other individual person, was identified and connected with its growth and development; nearly its entire history was compassed by his life and included within the period of his active business … Read more
James Fowler John Fowler, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1776. He lived for several years in Westmoreland county, and married there, in 1802, Miss Margaret Carson. His wife died the following year, leaving one child, and Mr. Fowler soon afterward removed to Butler county, where … Read more
JAMES FULMER James Fulmer was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1810. When he was a year old his parents, Nicholas and Tenna Fulmer, came to this county and located near where he now lives, in South Bend township. He grew to manhood here, enjoying the limited educational and other advantages afforded at that … Read more
John Keely John Keely was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania February 19, 1810, and was the son of Daniel and Mary Keely. The family moved to Indiana county, and his father died February 7, 1851, at the age of seventy-four, and mother March 25,1846, at the age of sixty-three. In 1833 John Keely came to … Read more