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Paperback The Conrad Weiser Area Book

ISBN: 1467123471

ISBN13: 9781467123471

The Conrad Weiser Area

(Part of the Images of America: Pennsylvania Series)

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In 1729, John Conrad Weiser, the most famous citizen of the area, joined his fellow Germans and built his homestead just east of present-day Womelsdorf. The settlement grew in the 1800s with a turnpike, a canal, a railroad, and more highways. Villages were started, and three became boroughs. Womelsdorf is the oldest borough in the western part of Berks County, while Robesonia and Wernersville were railroad towns laid out in the 1850s. Some remain...

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