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The Brooke Mansion (aka Brookeholm) in Birdsboro was built in 1887 for Edward Brooke II as a present for his new wife and second cousin,… Read more: Birdsboro’s Brooke Mansion - Happy New Year, 1925
I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year in 2025, but I figured now was as good a time as any to turn… Read more: Happy New Year, 1925 - Robesonia Train Station
Robesonia’s passenger rail station was built in 1856 as a stop on the Lebanon Valley line on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, just west of… Read more: Robesonia Train Station
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