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The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 140 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Two sites are further designated a National Historic Landmark and another is a National Historic Site.
Kutztown was incorporated as a borough on April 7, 1815, and is the second oldest borough in Berks County after Reading, which became a borough in 1783 and became a city in 1847. Like most of Berks County, Kutztown was settled predominantly by Germans, most of whom came from the Palatinate region of southwest Germany, which borders the Rhine river.
The U.S. Travel Service was created by the United States Secretary of Commerce on July 1, 1961, pursuant to the International Travel Act of 1961 (75 Stat. 129; 22 U.S.C. 2121 note) [2] after President John F. Kennedy signed Senate Bill 610 on June 29, 1961. [3] It was created to address a deficit in tourism in the United States. [1]
The welcome centers are normally located the first few exits into a state, e.g. Exit 2 on I-84 in Connecticut entering from New York State.However, some welcome centers, visitors' centers, or service plazas are located some distance away from a state's border, serving certain cities, e.g. Johnson City, Tennessee or Oceanside, California's local Chamber of Commerce, major cities, such as New ...
The tourist railroad operates out of a station in Kutztown during holidays and special occasions on the weekends. [1] Among the occasions the railroad has operated for include an Easter train, the Kutztown Folk Festival, the Kutztown Bicentennial Celebration, Halloween trick-or-treating, Christmas tree picking, and a Santa Claus train. [4]
Adjacent to the Kutz's Mill Bridge, the complex includes the one-and-one-half-story, stone mill (c. 1850), the brick farmhouse (1855), a one-and-one-half-story, stone, summer kitchen, a stone and frame Pennsylvania German bank barn, and three frame outbuildings. The mill is representative of a country custom mill and was built as part of a ...
The Kutztown Historical Society purchased this building in 1979. It uses it as a museum of local history and as the society's headquarters. The museum's collections include antique textile implements, toys, books, farm implements, fire equipment, clothing, schoolroom items, weapons and other items of area cultural and historical importance.
The Allentown branch, also known as the Kutztown branch or the Kutztown industrial track, is a railway line in Pennsylvania. It runs 4 miles (6.4 km) from a junction with the Reading Line at Topton to Kutztown. The line was built in 1870 by the Allentown Railroad and was part of the Reading Company system until 1976. The Kutztown Transportation ...