{"product_id":"1862-township-map-and-atlas-of-berks-county-pennsylvania","title":"1862 Township Map and Atlas of Berks County, Pennsylvania","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a facsimile reprint of the Township Map of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from Actual Surveys by L. Fagan, published by H. F. Bridgens in Philadelphia in 1862. The complete atlas is reproduced in full color from the Library of Congress copy, preserving the original hand-colored wash on the township maps and the plan of Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the eve of the Civil War, this is one of the earliest county atlases of Pennsylvania and the direct companion to Bridgens' 1864 atlas of Lancaster County. Twenty-two township plates cover all forty-one townships of Berks County as they stood in 1862, among them Albany, Alsace, Amity, Bern, Upper Bern, Bethel, Brecknock, Caernarvon, Centre, Colebrookdale, Cumru, District, Douglass, Earl, Exeter, Greenwich, Heidelberg, Lower Heidelberg, North Heidelberg, Hereford, Jefferson, Long Swamp, Maiden Creek, Marion, Maxatawny, Muhlenberg, Oley, Ontelaunee, Penn, Perry, Pike, Richmond, Robeson, Rockland, Ruscombmanor, Spring, Tulpehocken, Upper Tulpehocken, Union, Washington, and Windsor. Each map names the individual landowners on their farms and marks roads, streams, mills, forges, furnaces, churches, schoolhouses, taverns, post offices, and the lines of the Reading Railroad, the Schuylkill Canal, and the Union Canal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA large folding map of the whole county opens the volume, followed by a lot-by-lot plan of the City of Reading compiled by Bridgens in 1860, divided by ward and naming property holders on the outskirts, and street plans of the boroughs of Bernville, Boyertown, Hamburg, Kutztown, Leesport, and Womelsdorf. Four lithographed views show the City of Reading, the Berks County Court House, the Berks County Prison, and Charles Evans Cemetery. The front matter includes a list of post offices, a statistical table, a Berks County distance table, and a map of the State of Pennsylvania with the 1860 census population of every county. The atlas closes with business directories of Reading, Berks County, Pottstown, and Philadelphia, listing merchants, manufacturers, and professionals by trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing the Pennsylvania German families of Berks County, this atlas shows where an ancestor's farm stood and who held the neighboring land a generation before the better-known 1876 county atlas. It is an essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Berks County and Reading, Pennsylvania history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50 pages. 8.5\" x 8.5\". Full color. Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSatisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ExileBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872559898779,"sku":"Publishing 2026 \/ 820245695093","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/7705\/6411\/files\/s-l1600_f223cb9c-b6f6-4d26-a37c-5d1a3545eb5a.jpg?v=1792533728","url":"https:\/\/tangletownpress.com\/products\/1862-township-map-and-atlas-of-berks-county-pennsylvania","provider":"Tangletown Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}