Berks County Links
Links to all Berks County, PA Township and Borough websites.
Albany Township
www.co.berks.pa.us/albany/guestaccount/login.asp
Albany Township, Berks County’s second largest municipality and often referred to as “the environmentalist’s paradise” is situated north of Interstate Route 78, at the northern tip of the County.
Like most of the county, the first settlers to the ...
Bally Borough
www.co.berks.pa.us/bally/site/default.asp
Located in scenic Berks County between Allentown and Reading, the Borough of Bally is a legal municipality under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Borough was incorporated in 1912. The Borough uses the Council/Manager form of government in which the ...
Bern Township
www.co.berks.pa.us/bern/site/default.asp
Link to Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Birdsboro Borough
www.birdsboropa.org
Birdsboro was named after its founder, William Bird, who took warrants for land on Haycreek Road and, later, Six Penny Creek as early as 1737. On the banks of Haycreek, he established a forge in about 1740, which was followed by other forges along the cre ...
Brecknock Township
www.brecknockberks.com
Brecknock Township, named after the cathedral town of Brecon, capitol of Breconshire (or Brecknockshire), Wales, was founded in 1740 as a part of Lancaster County. The Township was divided at the founding of Berks County in 1752. The earliest permanent ...
Caernarvon Township
www.caernarvon.org
Caernarvon is a Welsh word, based on Caer Yr Arfon - "Fort (Caer) on the River (Arfon)." As with so many places between Philadelphia and Lancaster, the area was first settled by the hardy Welsh. To them, the rolling hills and flowing streams reminded them ...
City of Reading
www.readingpa.gov
In 1733, the site of present day Reading was chosen. It was set at the intersection of two great valleys, the east Penn-Lebanon Valley and the Schuylkill river. This site was known as Finney's Ford until 1743 when Thomas Lawrence, a Penn Land agent, made ...
Colebrookdale Township
colebrookdale.org
No diaries, journals or letters from our initial settlers survive and it may be safely assumed at this late date that none exist. Until the availability of documents of the first industrialization of the iron industry, beginning in 1716 to 1720, the only ...
Cumru Township
www.cumrutownship.com
When Cumru Township was first founded in 1737, it included Spring Township and the boroughs of Kenhorst, Mohnton, and Shillington and some areas that were incorporated into Reading. Hugh Jones bought one thousand acres of land in Cumru Township in 1732 an ...
District Township
www.districttownship.org
Settlers pushed their way up the Schuylkill Valley and its principal tributaries into the historic “Oley Hills.” As settlement began above the “Oley Hills,” the new area was called the district between Oley and Colebrookdale. The settlements extended more ...
Douglass Township
www.co.berks.pa.us/douglass
Link to Douglass Township, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
Exeter Township
www.exetertownship.com/Pages/HomePage.aspx
The year 1701 is believed to be the year that Berks County was first settled. Swedes, relocating from the Philadelphia and Delaware River areas, settled in what is now Amity Township.
In 1712, Isaac DeTurk moved from Esopus, New York to Oley and b ...
Hamburg Borough
www.hamburgboro.com
Link to Hamburg Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
Kenhorst Borough
www.co.berks.pa.us/kenhorst/site/default.asp
Berks County might still have only 29 boroughs if the residents of Cumru Township had not become perturbed over what they described as an exorbitant streetlight tax, lack of fire protection and street improvements.
Those complaints led to the birth of ...
Kutztown Borough
www.kutztownboro.org
Link to Kutztown Borough, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
Laureldale Borough
www.laureldaleboro.org
According to early reports, it was Clayton N. Fidler who suggested that the name "Laurel" be taken from Laurel Hill and be combined with the "dale" in Rosedale to form the favored name of Laureldale. It was this name that was then employed when steps were ...
Longswamp Township
www.co.berks.pa.us/longswamp
Link to Longswamp Township, Berks County, PA from D.L. Howell and Associates, Inc.
Lower Heidelberg Township
www.lhtwp.com
The Lower Heidelberg Township has a long and illustrious history that dates to the arrival of German and Welsh immigrants in the late 1720's.
Pick up a driving tour and history book at our Township building and wind your way over our colorful country r ...
Lyons Borough
www.lyonsborough.com
1700 Farmers from the Oley Valley begin migrating north into the area that would become the Borough of Lyons
1846 A large three story hotel - later called the Lyons Hotel is built close to where the railroad line would run
1850 the East Penn Branch ...
Maidencreek Township
www.maidencreek.net
Maidencreek Township was established in December of 1746 and
was named after the creek that runs diagonally through the township.
Quakers originally settled the area in 1732 and lived peacefully
among the Lenni Lenape Indians. Around 1800, the Quake ...
Civil Engineers
DLHowell Resources
West Chester Office
1250 Wright's Lane
West Chester, PA 19380
Phone: (610) 918-9002
Fax: (610) 918-9003
Kennett Square Office
312 W. State Street, Suite B
Kennett, PA 19348
Phone: (610) 444-3838
Fax: (610) 444-3877
