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Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
CENTER. Reading Pennsylvania. A Brief History... In 1733, the site of present day Reading was chosen. It was set at the intersection of two great valleys, the east Penn-Lebanon Valley and the Schuylkill river. This site was known as Finney's Ford until 1743 when Thomas Lawrence, a Penn Land agent, made the first attempt at the layout for Reading.
Reading, city, seat (1752) of Berks county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Schuylkill River, 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Philadelphia. Laid out in 1748 by Nicholas Scull and William Parsons on land owned by Thomas and Richard Penn (sons of William Penn , Pennsylvania’s founder), it was built around Penn Common, a large open square ...
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From colonization to revitalization, from the American Revolution to the Industrial Revolution, from a hotbed of bootleggers to a capital of organized crime, the history of Reading has always been colorful. Reading riflemen were a great asset to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, after which Reading was a trading and manufacturing cent...
In 1922, Reading bootlegger Abe Minker set in motion a series of events that led to a hijacking, a re-hijacking and his own conviction for perjury. His first mistake was paying to have a delivery truck carrying barrels of alcohol hijacked before it reached Reading so he wouldn’t have to pay full price for the delivery. His second mistake was underp...
Abe Minker’s control of Reading’s rackets began in earnest with the 1955 election of Mayor Daniel F. McDevitt, a city councilman who owned a North Sixth Street bar next to Minker’s slot machine store. When he took office, McDevitt declared the machines illegal and ordered them out of bars. One operator of a gambling machine business reported that m...
1733:The Finney family builds the area’s first house near present-day Third and Franklin streets. The log cabin known as Widow Finney’s at Fourth and Cherry streets was built decades later. 1748:The town of Reading is laid out. 1750:Conrad Weiser establishes Reading’s first store near Fifth and Penn streets. 1762:31 licenses are issued to taverns i...
Sep 24, 2021 · The Heritage of Reading: 1874-1910: The Height of Progress, Trollies, and the First Suburbs. Between the year in which Reading became a Third Class City and the year in which Reading’s prosperity is said to have reached its peak, the City underwent some major physical changes as it saw the years of its greatest progress.
The city was founded after the name of Reading, England, in 1748. In 1752, immediately after the establishment of Berks County, Reading became the official county seat. The Greater Reading became the home of the first Amish community. The language dominantly spoken in the region was the Pennsylvanian German dialect.
Sep 2, 2021 · The Pagoda in Reading has a rich history and continues to be a popular destination atop Mount Penn.
