Historical review of Berks County v. 48-49 (1982)

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Contents: v. 48. Germans in America, the German settlement of colonial Pennsylvania compared to that of antebellum Texas; The Reading Public Library; LWilliam Helffrich, horse and buggy preacher; Reading Gas Division, a history; The Dreibelbis covered bridge; Aaron S. Leinbach and the founding of St. Thomas United Church of Christ; The wife of a rural Reading company ticket agent, Katie Kershner; Rainbow Fire Company, no. 1, Reading, Pennsylvania; Lower reaches of the Tulpehocken Creek; "The slow and lonesome"; The Reading rides again; Reading Railroad commemorative issue (no. 4) -- v. 49. Reading Company Technical and Historical Society; The rowhouses of Reading; The Callowhill House; Historical report of the Provost Marshal, a valuable source for local Civil War history; A Berks County soldier; A Civil War soldier from Berks County; Mileposts of Centre Turnpike still mark the way; Ice! Any ice today?; The Pennsylvania "Deitsch", hardy defenders of the colonial frontier; Reading portrait photography; The emergence of the ruling elite in Berks County; St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church; Slow boat to Birdsboro, the Schuylkill Canal in Berks County; Old mils in the Boyertown area; James Hervey Sternbergh, industrialist, inventory, gentleman; Early religious history in Reading, Pennsylvania; The last "Reading Camelback".

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