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The Peter Wanner Mansion sits at the very east end of Walnut Street in Reading, at the base of Mount Penn. The Victorian mansion was… Read more: Peter Wanner Mansion – Fraught by Failure - Membership to Berks Nostalgia
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On October 7th, 1948 President Harry S. Truman made a campaign stop in Reading where he addressed a crowd of roughly 20,000 on Penn Square… Read more: Harry Truman Visits Reading On This Day 1948
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