Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
1906

Reading, a city, the seat of justice of Berks co., Pa., is beautifully situated on the Schuylkill River and on the Philadelphia and Reading and the Pennsylvania Rs., 59 miles NW. of Philadelphia. Located in the midst of the rich agricultural districts of the Schuylkill and Lebanon valleys, and in the immediate vicinity of vast anthracite coal-fields and deposits of iron-ore, Reading possesses industrial facilities of an unusually high order. The chief industry is the manufacture of iron and steel, which gives employment to many thousand hands, and is represented by blast-furnaces, rolling-mills, sheet-iron, boiler-plate, tube- and car-wheel works, stove-foundries, etc. The city has also extensive manufactures of fur and woollen hats, leather, paper, lumber, cotton and knitted goods, hosiery, glass-ware, and beer. Extensive railroad-shops are located here. Among the educational institutions is the Reading Classical School. On the surrounding mountains (Mount Penn, 1040 feet; Neversink Mountain, 850 feet) are thousands of acres of natural parks, traversed by gravity and electric railroads, which are much patronised by pleasure-seekers. Pop. in 1880, 43,278 ; in 1890, 58,661 ; in 1990, 78,961.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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