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| CHAPTER I. -
GEOGRAPHY |
11-18 |
-
Situation and boundaries of County
- Streams, valleys, and mountains
- Geology
- Relative elevation
- Latitude and longitude |
| CHAPTER II.
- INDIANS |
19-23 |
- First
occupants
- Tribes
- Claus and Manners
- Departure
- Relics
- Glossary of local Indian names |
| CHAPTER III.
- EARLY SETTLERS |
24-36 |
- Swedes
- Germans
- English
- Welsh |
| CHAPTER IV.
- ERECTION OF COUNTY AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS |
37-40 |
-
Erection
- Area
- Name
- Subdivision
- Sections, townships and towns
- Boroughs
- City |
| CHAPTER V.
- GOVERNMENT |
41-62 |
-
Privileges
- Officers, local, State, and National
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution of United States and National Legislature
- Constitution of Pennsylvania and State Legislature
- Offices by special legislation
- Minority officials
- Election districts
- Political parties
- Conventions
- Nominations for office
- Electors
- Vote for Governor
- Vote for President
- Party vote
- Vote for Liquor
- State Convention at Reading
- Mass Meetings
- Political festivals |
| CHAPTER VI.
- EDUCATION |
63-95 |
-
Churches:
- Lutheran and Reformed, Friends, Baptists,
Dunkards, Moravians, Roman Catholics, Amish,
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, and
Universalist
- Cemeteries.
- Schools:
- Early encouragement
- Common school education
- School progress
- County Superintendents
- Origin of system
- Common school system accepted by districts
- Teachers' Institute
- Pay schools.
- Newspapers: Weekly and daily
- Language
- Manners and Customs |
| CHAPTER VII.
- LABOR AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS |
96-123 |
- Labor:
Agriculture
- Industries
- Internal Improvements:
-
Advantages of river
- Canals
- Bridges
- Freshets
- Roads
- Turnpikes
- Stages
- Railroads
- Progress of
locomotion
- County
buildings
- Postal
service
-
Post-offices in County
- Stamps
- Telegraph
- Telephone |
| CHAPTER
VIII. - MILITARY PERIODS |
124-165 |
-
French and Indian War, 1755 to 1763:
- Cause - French and Indians unite
- County entered
- English victorious
- Peace declared
- Forts
- Killed and captured
- Revolution, 1775 to 1783:
- Local patriotism
- Companies from Berks County
- Army supplies
- Hession prisoners
- Duel at Reading
- Conway Cabal
- Continental money
- Peace
- Return of soldiers
- Whisky Insurrection of 1795:
- Cause
- Call to arms
- County Quota
- Washington visits Reading
- House Tax and Liberty Poles, 1799:
- Insurrection
- Local excitement
- Proprietor of Adler flogged.
- Embargo of 1807
- English War, 1812-1815:
- Cause
- Declaration of war
- Local patriotism
- Companies from County
- Peace declared
- English families at Reading
- Mexican War, 1846-1849:
- Cause
- Declaration of war
- Patriotism at Reading
- Reading Artillerists
- Departure for Mexico
- Battles of Company
- Return of company
- Civil War, 1861-1865:
- Cause
- Lincoln
elected
- Secession
- Call
to arms
- Ringgold
Light Artillery
- Patriotism
of County
- Partisan
protest
- Social
excitement
- Local
enterprise
- Appropriations
- Ladies' Aide Society
- Reading Hospital
- Draft in County
- Companies from County
- Confederate armies surrender
- Summary of battles
- Sacrifices of war
- State banks
- National banks
- National currency
- Militia:
- Legislative provision
- County battalions
- State National Guard |
| CHAPTER IX.
- TOWNSHIPS |
166-177 |
-
Organization
- Development
- Government
- Section
- Eastern Division:
- Manataway Section
- Ontelaunee Section
- Western Division:
- Schuylkill
Section
- Tulpehocken Section
- Names of townships and derivation of names |
| CHAPTER X -
BOROUGHS |
178-185 |
-
Organization
- Government
- Western Division:
- Womelsdorf,
Birdsboro, Bernville, Centreport
- Eastern Division:
- Kutztown, Hamburg, Boyerstown, Fleetwood, Topton,
Lenhartsville |
| CHAPTER XI.
- READING |
186-289 |
-
Town, 1748 to 1783:
- Town proposed
- Site selected
- Location
- Lots sold
- District established
- Ground rent
- Churches
- Schools
- Taverns
- Occupations
- No newspapers nor internal improvements
- Wells
- Fuel, light, and Entertainments
- Hunting and Fishing
- Pound Sterling
- Calendar
- Borough, 1783 to 1847:
- Charter
- Election districts
- Newspapers
- Post-office
- Internal improvements
- Ferries and Bridges
- Fire companies, Banks, and Water Supply
- Light
- Public buildings
- Streets, change of names.
- City, 1847 to 1889:
- Review in 1847
- Development by decades
- 1847 and 1889 contrasted
- Labor and Internal Improvements
- Schools and Churches
- Associations
- Government |
| CHAPTER
XXII. - CENSUS |
290-296 |
- Legal
provision
- Rate of increase
- Table, 1800 to 1880, showing population of County
- Population of Reading
- Conclusion. |
