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Nov 28, 2022 · Between the 1700 and 1800s, Reading became an important centre for business and trade and grew into a thriving market town. Its three most important business became known as the three Bs – standing for beer, bulbs and biscuits. The beer was made by Simonds Brewery (opened in 1785), the bulbs were grown by Sutton’s Seeds (established in 1837 ...
Sep 24, 2021 · In 1874 a new railroad depot was erected in the triangle below Oley Street, replacing the one on South Seventh. By the 1880’s it had become known as the geographical center of Reading: the worth of a business or a hotel came to be measured by its proximity to the Depot rather than to Penn Square.
Sep 23, 2021 · The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company was incorporated in 1833 and work at Reading was begun immediately. By 1837 a single track was completed from Reading to Pottstown, and regular rail steam service began one year later. Service was extended from Reading to Philadelphia in 183‘), and from Pottsville to Philadelphia in 1841.
In 1748, the town was laid out by Thomas and Richard Penn, the sons of William Penn. The name was chosen after Penn's own county seat, Reading, in Berkshire, England. In 1752, Reading became the county seat of Berks. During the French and Indian war, Reading became a military base for a chain of forts along the Blue Mountains.
Sep 23, 2021 · It became a part of the Philadelphia and Reading Company in 1857, and one year later trains began to run on the line. The Lebanon Valley Railroad proved to be a great asset to small industries which soon located along the line, which ran to the north of the Great Hollow in Northwest Reading.
May 6, 2016 · May 6, 2016. READING, Penn.—. For many people living in America’s poorest cities, success is elusive. Gone are the days when families in the Rust Belt could count on a manufacturing job out of ...
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He never came back to Reading, but no citizen of Reading can think without a quickening pulse of appreciation of the shy, kindly man, toiling in his cabinet at Westminster over the voluminous directions for the town whose interest tugged so closely at his heart strings. This article appeared in The Historical Review of Berks County, October 1944.
