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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2421_first-reformed-church_Reading-PA.html
The heirs of Wm. Penn
donated and deeded the lots to
Conrad Weiser and Isaac Levan,
————Trustees.————
The first church was built of logs.
Rev. Wm. Stoy, 1755, was the first pastor
Gov. Joseph…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241Y_dr-bodo-otto_Reading-PA.html
Delegate to the
Provincial Congress,
June 18, 1776.
Senior surgeon with
his two sons during the
Revolution.
Had charge of the
Valley Forge
encampment.
(See Berks Co. History,)
Died 1787.
Aged 79 years.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241W_trinity-lutheran-church_Reading-PA.html
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
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Beautiful Building of
D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM241V_trinity-lutheran-church-original-cemetery_Reading-PA.html
Dedicated to all who rest
in unmarked graves
One generation shall laud
thy works to another...
Psalm 145:4
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Under this chapel lie the remains of
[Roll of Burials]
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L72_skew-bridge_Reading-PA.html
Regarded best example of skew bridge in U.S. Designed by Richard Osborn for the P & R Railroad in 1857. Each course of the arch of 40 feet is laid in ellipsoidal curve, each stone properly curved. There is no keystone.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CQU_william-strong_Reading-PA.html
Eminent jurist; Member State Supreme Court, 1857-1868; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of U.S., 1870-80; Member Electoral Commission, 1877. His law office and home stood on this site. Died, 1895.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CQT_thompsons-rifle-battalion-capt-george-nagels-company_Reading-PA.html
With men enlisted from Berks County, Nagel's Company was a part of the first battalion in the colonies authorized by Congress, in June 1775. After gathering at Reading the following month, this company and other companies of the battalion marched …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGS5_col-conrad-weiser_Reading-PA.html
In memory ofCol. Conrad Weiser,Pioneer, soldier, diplomat, judge. As interpreter and Indian agent he negotiated every treaty from 1732 until near the close of the French and Indian War.—————The Weiser building where h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGS3_conrad-weiser-trading-post_Reading-PA.html
A hewn-log building, erected on this site about 1750; operated until 1760 by Conrad Weiser, distinguished pioneer settler, treaty maker, Indian agent and interpreter, and first Berks County lay judge.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGS2_womans-christian-temperance-union-drinking-fountain_Reading-PA.html
Erected by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Reading Pa. for the use of the public.
[Bust of] Francis E. Willard