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Her father sold ice and coal in downtown Philadelphia at the Reading Terminal and eventually opened a small liquor business as well.

It would become the keystone of the Philadelphia and Reading system, serving as a gauntlet for its eastern and western branches.

The Schuylkill River headwaters are found in the county, starting in the Appalachian Mountains, and flows through many towns and the city of Reading, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia where it flows into the Delaware River.

Berks County is part of the Reading, PA, metropolitan statistical area and as of 2005, is also considered part of the Philadelphia combined statistical area.

Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.

The 1921 and 1931 National Order of the Arrow Lodge Meetings were held at Philadelphia, the 1922 and 1927 National Lodge Meetings were held at Reading, Pennsylvania, and the 1940 National Lodge Meeting was held at Ligonier, Pennsylvania.

Rail service was provided to the island by both the Atlantic City Railroad, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, and the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad, owned by the rival Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, constructed to haul anthracite coal, was completed in 1843.

Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88, 082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie, and the sixth most-populous municipality.

Reading is also known for the Reading Phillies, minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies who play at Reading Metropolitan Stadium.

Among these native to Reading are Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Carl Furillo, Baltimore Colts running back Lenny Moore, and Philadelphia 76ers forward Donyell Marshall.

It is situated in southeastern Pennsylvania, adjacent to Reading, the county seat, and about northwest of Philadelphia.

City dwellers ( especially from Philadelphia and New York City ) traveled out to Wernersville ( a stop on the Reading Railroad ) to rest and partake of the cool mountain air of South Mountain.

Penndel remained a farming region until 1876 when the Philadelphia Reading Railroad began service, and the Langhorne train station was established.

One month later the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad presented the Fire Company with a locomotive tire iron for use as a fire alarm.

Scranton had a population of 76, 089 in 2010, according to the U. S. Census, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most-populous city after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, and Reading.

Two years later, the Lebanon Valley Railroad merged with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to form the Reading Railroad.

Local tradition holds that the town was named after Edward K. Alburtis, a civil engineer involved in the construction of the East Pennsylvania Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway.

However, in July 1871, Bonnell sold the improvements and leased the coal rights to the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Co., and in February 1876, Bonnell sold the property outright to the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. Lance, who moved to Philadelphia and became a mat manufacturer, spent years in court, suing his old friend Bonnell in a futile attempt to recover the mine.

It is located 88 miles ( 141 km ) northwest of Philadelphia and 71 miles ( 114 km ) northeast of Harrisburg, in the Anthracite Coal Region.

) Later that year, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company ( a company set up by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad to administer their anthracite properties ) came into possession of the Brookside through its purchase of the Munson and Williams lands.

The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company reopened the colliery in 1892 and renamed it the East Brookside.

More important than the local runs, Blossburg Coal was being shipped to Albany where it influenced railroad and canal navigation legislation, and also to Philadelphia where it attracted the enterprising businessmen.

Franklin B. Gowen, the President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, and of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and " the wealthiest anthracite coal mine owner in the world ", hired Allan Pinkerton's services to deal with the Molly Maguires.

Over the next dozen years the railroad acquired other large tracts of land: in 1870, in 1872, and acquisition of the Philadelphia Coal Company in 1873 with its large leases in the Mahanoy basin.

Primarily, the P & R was constructed to haul anthracite coal from the mines in northeastern Pennsylvania's Coal Region to Philadelphia.

" In 1871, the Reading established a subsidiary called the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, which set about buying anthracite coal mines in the Coal Region.

The Reading Company was created to serve as a holding company for the Reading's rail and coal subsidiaries: the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, respectively.

Consequently, the large scale enterprises which came to characterize the industrialized eastern half of the region, such as the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company ( marketer of the coal branded " Old Company's Lehigh "), the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and the Bethlehem Iron Company ( later known as Bethlehem Steel ) were founded by English speaking residents from the Philadelphia and New York areas.

* June 28-The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's King Coal passenger train makes its final run to Shamokin, Pennsylvania.

In the United States, where the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company ( LC & N ) had begun shipping anthracite to Philadelphia in 1820, there was great interest in exploiting the great anthracite deposits of Schuylkill County for ironmaking.

" This new company was quickly bought outright by the Reading as a subsidiary and renamed the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company ( the Coal & Iron Co .).

While the southern reaches of the Coal Region were already beginning to supply Philadelphia, they realized that the areas they had been exploring and mining were well-positioned to deliver coal to New York City, which had experienced an energy crunch following import restrictions on British coal imposed after the War of 1812.

The city of Reading, Pennsylvania, became a rich middleman town during the Industrial revolution from the Coal Region Pottsville, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia.

Reading Anthracite Company ; origins date back to 1871 when its predecessor, the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company ( P. & R. C .& I.

At this time, the railroad, so called the " Iron horse ," was laying track out of Philadelphia in all directions with service to Chester, Media, West Chester, and Radnor ... but not Newtown Square.

When the North Penn Railroad, connecting Philadelphia to Bethlehem, was completed in 1856, this line provided an impetus to building iron smelters in Bingen, Hellertown, and Iron Hill, due to the township ’ s wealth of iron ore and limestone.

* December 6, 1968 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA, as part of the Quaker City Rock Festival with the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, & Iron Butterfly

FAB has become known for its traditional events such as Ben & Jerry ’ s Bingo, Bowling Night, Midnight Cheese Steak Run, FAB Quizzo, and trips to sporting events and the many arts and theatre venues in Philadelphia, the FAB Film Series ( the screening of a film's pre-DVD release every other weekend ) and other unorthodox events such as Love Shack: Valentines Ginger Bread House building and Iron Chef: Dining Center.

In 1864, Bessemer steel was first made in the United States, and the Association, headquartered in Philadelphia changed its name to the American Iron and Steel Association ( AISA ).

Individual brigades, such as the Irish Brigade, the Philadelphia Brigade, the First New Jersey Brigade, the Vermont Brigade, and the Iron Brigade, all became well known to the general public, both during the Civil War and afterward.

The league has subsequently re-entered former AFL markets and taken up the names of their markets ' former teams ; the Bossier City Battle Wings became the revived New Orleans VooDoo, the Alabama Vipers assumed the identity and history of the Georgia Force, the expansion Milwaukee Iron assumed the name and history of the Milwaukee Mustangs and the Philadelphia Soul franchise was revived for the 2011 Arena Football League season as well.

Having retired from the House of Representatives in 1881, Clymer served as Vice President of the Union Trust Co. of Philadelphia and president of the Clymer Iron Co until his death in 1884.

After he left Congress, he served as vice president of the Union Trust Company in Philadelphia and as president of the Clymer Iron Company.

Philadelphia: American Iron and Steel Association, 1892.

On her journey back from a meeting with her publisher, Rebecca met L. Clarke Davis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whom she had been corresponding with since he had contacted her as an admirer of her work after the publication of Life in the Iron Mills.