Reading’s Bar

Major Pierson B. Reading discovered gold on this bar behind this monument in July, 1848. After crossing the Trinity Divide from the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek. His party of three whites, close friend Delaware Indian scout Tom Hill, and ...

National Historic Landmark-Reading Terminal and Trainshed

National Historic Landmark- Reading Terminal and Trainshed

Completed in 1893, this, the largest single-span (259 feet by 8 inch), arched-roof trainshed in the world, is a monument in the history of engineering.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

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Reading Observation No. 1

1937

Builder: Budd Company, Red Lion, PA

Build Date: 1937

Retirement Date: 1982

Number Built: 2

Weight: 97,000 lbs.

Length: 85 ft.

PHMC Cat No. RR78.52

The Crusader:

As the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, the Reading Company launched a new premier passenger service from Philadelphia ...

Reading #2124

Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during the mid 1920s as a 2-8-0, the Reading Company rebuilt #2124 among thirty other engines, as a 4-8-4 Northern in January 1947.

Reading Northerns were heavy-duty freight locomotives assigned most often to coal ...

Readington Township Veterans Monument

[Side A:]

WORLD WAR 1

HONOR ROLL

On these grounds 57 trees were planted in commemoration of these men who helped make the world safe for democracy 1918

[Column 1:]

Norwood Apgar • Marion W. Bonnell • William Bonnell • Walter D. Bonnell • Frederick ...

Reading Home

Built in 1760 for John Reading, Governor of New Jersey 1757 - 1758. Reading served 40 years on provincial council.

Marker is on River Road, on the right when traveling west.

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Reading Terminal and Market

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad’s Terminal Station served passengers from 1893-1984. The train shed, masterpiece of Joseph H. Wilson, is an engineering feat reflecting the era when railroads vied for impressive terminals, both functional and beautiful. The market, located below ...

Hamlet of Readingsburg

Also Called Stone Mill

Site of 18th and 19th Century Water Powered Mills.

Placed on the state and federal register of historic sites in 1999.

Marker is on Cokesbury Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Readington Church

Established in 1719 in North Branch. Moved to Readington 1738. Oldest Dutch Reformed Church in Hunterdon. Present building circa 1864.

Marker is on Readington Road, on the right when traveling west.

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Reading Passenger Station

Historic Pottstown Walking Tour

When people learned of the railroad coming to Pottstown in the 1830's, the two rival hotel keepers, John Boyer and Joshua B. Missimer, vied for their business by building hotels on either side of the railroad tracks. ...