Articles The Historical Review of Berks County The articles below were originally published in The Historical Review of Berks County, the quarterly publication of the Berks History Center. Click Here to Become a Member & Subscribe! Daniel Boone The World of Moses Boone – The Economic Activity of a Berks County Tanner in the 1780s Daniel and Squire Boone The Boones in Pennsylvania Daniel Boone Berks County’s Gift to the West Ben Franklin’s Mortgage on the Daniel Boone Farm The Early Years of Daniel Boone Conrad Weiser Conrad Weiser Conrad Weiser and the New York Colony The Palatine Migration — 1723 The Unaccountable Weiser Letter Newly Discovered Weiser Letter A Weiser Land Patent-1722 Conrad Weiser, Peacemaker of Colonial Pennsylvania African Americans in Berks History Bessie Reese Crenshaw: First Black Graduate of Kutztown University African-American Women in Berks County’s History The Underground Railroad “Peace, Union, and Glory”: Berks County African Americans in the Civil War African American Occupations in the 1900s Fighting for the Double V Personalities WIDE OPEN CITY: Gambling, prostitution flourish in Tony Moran era Inside the MINKER ERA years Beer Baron Max Hassel J. Henry Stump – Reading’s Most Memorable Mayor James H. Maurer – Socialist Labor Leader Susanna Cox : Her Crime and its Expiation Dr. George de Benneville Teacher, Healer and Preacher of Universalism Frederick Lauer Reading’s Philanthropic Brewer Political Career of William A. Witman, Sr. The Lincolns of Berks County Amusement Parks Carsonia Park Reflections Carsonia Perks Carsonia Park, From the Bottom Catch a Ride on the Carsonia Carousel Mineral Spring Park, Pendora Park, The Zoo of the City of Reading Transportation and Industry The Reading Railroad Massacre Berks Airports Stoudt’s Ferry Covered Bridge The Brewing Industry in Reading, Until 1880 Titan in Berks Edison’s Experiments in Iron Concentration The Gas Industry and its Development in Reading The Dreibelbis Covered Bridge Reading, Pretzel Capital of the World The Pagoda and Mount Penn The Pagoda The Pagoda Bell The Story of the Pagoda Reading’s Pagoda Bell Origin of the Pagoda Bell The Gravity Railroad Penn’s Common Politics The “Other Liberty Bell” Comes to Reading… Prohibition! The Failure of the “noble experiment” in Reading & Berks County (1920-1933) The Road to Insignificance – The Reading Cigarworkers’ Union from 1925 to 1935 The Railroad Strike of 1877 in Reading Augusta Township, Berks County Thomas Penn and the Town of Reading in Pennsylvania The Reading Socialists In Retrospect The Guilded Age in Reading Pennsylvania The Birth of a County – 1752 Civil War The 167th Pennsylvania – Civil War’s Only All-Berks Regiment One Moment of Glory: 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers, With Five Berks Companies, Write History at Gettysburg The Saga of Brigadier General David McMurtie Gregg The First Defenders The Ringgold Light Artillery of Reading The Four Firsts in Berks – 1861 The Lincoln Election in Berks:A Survey of Politics during the Election Year 1860 Far Western Berks In Civil War The Poignant History of the GAR Monument The Home Front During the Civil War The Military Career of David McMurtie Gregg General William Rufus Terrill:The Civil War Officer that Reading Adopted A Civil War Soldier from Berks County – The Fate of Frederick Albright The Historical Report of the Provost Marshal… A Valuable Source for Local Civil War History Misc Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club – Keepers of the Appalachian Trail Flu: 1918 Epidemic Frightens Entire County & Kills Several Thousands The Hessian POWs in Reading Revisited The Brethren Community of Pricetown A Brief History of Saint John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sinking Spring Celebrating 80 Years of Good Times at The Peanut Bar South Mountain Resorts A High Road to Health Historical Survey of Blue Marsh Project Area Reading Historical Trail by Alex Conrad (pdf) The Origin and Practition of Pow-Wow Among the Pennsylvania Germans Common Ground in Shearertown
