Category: Farm
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The Dunkel Farm 416 Snyder Road
Read more: The Dunkel Farm 416 Snyder RoadThe land that makes up this historic Ontelaunee Township farm was purchased by Conrad Dunkel from Leonard Stein in 1790. Stein acquired this property directly from John Penn. Conrad then sold it to his brother Jacob in 1797. The home was constructed in three separate sections. The oldest, likely dating the 1790s, is a primitive…
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George Boone IV Estate – 371 Old Tulpehocken Road
Read more: George Boone IV Estate – 371 Old Tulpehocken RoadThis property at 371 Old Tulpehocken Road has a three century old history. The oldest section of the house dates to about 1725, when George Boone IV built a small stone dwelling, summer kitchen and gristmill to settle lands that eventually would become parts of both Exeter and Amity Townships. George was the eldest brother…
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Lamm / Speicher Farm
Read more: Lamm / Speicher FarmThis is another installment in the “Before Blue Marsh” series, where I explore the remains of various properties that were razed in the 1970s to make way for the Blue Marsh Lake Project. See more here. My ongoing Blue Marsh mapping project led me to the remains of the Speicher farm which sat off of…
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How the Fairgrounds almost ended up in West Wyomissing
Read more: How the Fairgrounds almost ended up in West WyomissingThe earliest years of the Reading Fair were held at City Park and then a plot on North 11th street. During the early 1910s the Berks County Agricultural Society was tired of leasing the land at North 11th Street and wanted a more permanent location they could call their own. On April 3rd, 1914 it…
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Paper Mill Road Covered Bridge
Read more: Paper Mill Road Covered BridgeThe following images were taken in 1957 and I believe them to be depicting around the then-countryside of Wyomissing Borough. The first image has been identified, but the remaining two are up in the air. EDIT: The second image is now believed to be a covered bridge that sat in the area of the old…
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Tulpehocken Farms Dairy Store
Read more: Tulpehocken Farms Dairy StoreTulpehocken Farms Dairy Store was located at the intersection of State Hill Road and Van Reed Roads in Spring Township. The storefront was built onto the dairy barn in 1962. It’s location was roughly here. The Tulpehocken Dairy Farm Store was built on the front of the barn late in 1962. The Haas family moved…
