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8newspaper titles
0digitized titles
145historic places
1840earliest paper
1752formed
428,849pop. 2020
249cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 8 newspaper titles published in Berks County, Pennsylvania, with the earliest starting in 1840. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 145 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Reading, Kutztown, Wernersville.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
249 cemeteries and 9 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 80 of 249 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Allegheny Union Cemetery Old
40.23403
-75.98886
Allegheny Union Church Cemetery New
40.23592
-75.98794
Alleghenyville Mennonite Cemetery
40.23501
-75.97197
Alsace Lutheran Church Cemetery
40.3689
-75.91818
Altalaha Lutheran Church New Cemetery
40.46149
-76.24961
Altalaha Lutheran Church Old Cemetery
40.45948
-76.25034
Angstadt Family Cemetery
40.4264
-75.75077
Arthur Degler Farm Burials
40.49582
-76.09867
Atonement Lutheran Church Columbarium
40.33281
-75.96338
Aulenbach Cemetery
40.32897
-75.8971
Bally Mennonite Cemetery
40.39708
-75.59045
Barto Burial Ground
40.39721
-75.77505
Bashore Cemetery
40.4869
-76.33575
Beckers Saint Peters Church Cemetery
40.49206
-75.87327
Bellemans Church Cemetery
40.45902
-76.02872
Berks County Almshouse Cemetery
40.29652
-75.95013
Berks County Memorial Gardens
40.45896
-75.88385
Bern Cemetery
40.40456
-76.02673
Bern Church Yard Cemetery
40.40313
-76.02948
Bernardine Sisters Cemetery
40.31179
-75.93637
Bernville Mennonite Cemetery
40.4709
-76.15383
Bertolet Cemetery
40.33599
-75.77347
Bertolet Union Cemetery
40.38082
-75.77499
Bethany Congregational Cemetery
40.41777
-75.57572
Bethel Dunkard Brethren Church Cemetery
40.47775
-76.22899
Bethel Evangelical Cemetery
40.20478
-75.90828
Bethel Mennonite Cemetery
40.46675
-76.30708
Bieber - Lesher Burial Ground
40.40194
-75.76511
Birch Hill Cemetery
40.47469
-75.96477
Bloomsburg Meeting House Cemetery
40.42912
-76.01402
Bolich's Cemetery
40.63612
-75.93918
Boyertown Mennonite Cemetery
40.31983
-75.64712
Boyertown Union Church Cemetery
40.33403
-75.63773
Braun Cemetery
40.37371
-76.19365
Caernarvon Cemetery
40.15707
-75.89154
Charles Evans Cemetery
40.35633
-75.93093
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery - New
40.46515
-75.75498
Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery - New
40.38207
-76.2463
Conrad Weiser Homestead and Memorial Park
40.35843
-76.17276
DeTurk Cemetery
40.29521
-75.79507
Deturk Farm Cemetery
40.38028
-75.78847
Dreibelbis Cemetery
40.46159
-75.79929
Dunkels Church Cemetery
40.54769
-75.8669
Ebenezer Cemetery
40.50243
-75.96268
Emmanuel Cemetery
40.24829
-75.98073
Eplers Church Cemetery
40.39972
-75.98291
Evangelical Cemetery
40.38908
-75.78961
Exeter Friends Cemetery
40.31289
-75.7842
Fairview Cemetery
40.33652
-75.64267
Fairview Cemetery
40.50734
-75.78409
Fairview Cemetery - West
40.29851
-75.96966
Feick Family Cemetery
40.50086
-76.13572
Fix - Gerber - Bitting Cemetery
40.32334
-75.93221
Fleetwood Cemetery
40.45692
-75.81574
Fleetwood Mennonite Cemetery
40.46714
-75.83624
Forest Hills Memorial Park
40.31218
-75.88892
Frantz Cemetery
40.44977
-76.27782
Friedens Cemetery
40.25746
-75.87881
Friedens Cemetery
40.62052
-75.81749
Friedens Church Cemetery
40.3904
-75.79068
Friedens Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
40.43632
-76.11401
Friedens Union Cemetery
40.57236
-75.8795
Friedens Union Cemetery
40.51175
-76.1077
Fritz Cemetery
40.29692
-75.65238
Frystown Cemetery
40.44803
-76.33077
Geehr Cemetery
40.55064
-75.74023
Gehmans Mennonite Cemetery
40.24676
-76.03574
Gethsemane Cemetery
40.3851
-75.91642
Good Shepherd Cemetery
40.40363
-75.93782
Greenwood Cemetery
40.56063
-75.98231
Grim Cemetery
40.56085
-75.71565
Guldin Memorial Site
40.32909
-75.75531
Haags Cemetery
40.43965
-76.11358
Harmony Christian Fellowship Cemetery
40.42875
-76.32055
Harmony United Methodist Church Cemetery
40.18191
-75.87752
Hechler - Esterly Family Cemetery
40.33651
-75.81794
Heidelberg Cemetery
40.36247
-76.13176
Heinrich 3 Cemetery
40.63078
-75.92709
Herbein Family Burial Ground
40.35143
-75.80487
Hereford Mennonite Cemetery
40.39615
-75.59027
Historical populated places — 9 of 9
Name
Lat
Lon
Beidlertown
40.26505
-75.81692
Blue Marsh
40.36731
-76.03633
Brooklyn
40.26382
-75.81245
Furnace Hill
40.27163
-75.8108
Lincolntown
40.26416
-75.80007
Mexico
40.25878
-75.80988
Silvertown
40.26083
-75.81719
South Birdsboro
40.25677
-75.81136
Texas
40.25607
-75.81117
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
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