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Schuylkill River watershed. Tulpehocken Creek joins the Schuylkill River near Reading in the map. Tulpehocken Creek is a 39.5-mile-long (63.6 km) tributary of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States, and during the American Canal Age, once provided nearly half the length of the Union Canal linking the port of Philadelphia, the largest American city and the other ...
Bloody Springs massacre. / 40.84611°N 76.29333°W / 40.84611; -76.29333. The Bloody Springs massacre was an attack by Lenape warriors on homesteads in what is now Berks County, Pennsylvania, on October 1, 1757, during the French and Indian War. The Spatz family and other settlers were killed at a spring near modern-day Strausstown ...
Penn's Creek massacre. / 40.813649; -76.856207. The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755 raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, [n 1] a tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied ...
Added to NRHP. March 28, 1985. The Tulpehocken Creek Historic District is a national historic district located in North Heidelberg Township, and Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Encompassing a total of 17,000 acres, this district stretches from the Tulpehocken Creek and Mill Creek at the Berks County-Lebanon County line to ...
Aug. 16—Noise, littering and other illegal activities in Riverfront Park have been a source of complaints for years, but Reading officials agree the area has more potential than problems.
Tulpehocken Township. / 40.44083°N 76.25333°W / 40.44083; -76.25333. Tulpehocken Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,274 at the 2010 census . Tulpehocken is a name derived from the Lenape language, meaning "land of the turtles".
Tulpehocken and Mill Creeks from the Berks-Lebanon county line to the Blue Marsh Dam between Millardsville and Bernville 40°23′13″N 76°11′21″W / 40.386944°N 76.189167°W / 40.386944; -76.189167 ( Tulpehocken Creek Historic
78002347 [1] Added to NRHP. November 17, 1978. Wertz's Covered Bridge, also known as the Red Covered Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Bern Township and Spring Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania . The bridge is a 204-foot-long (62 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1867. It crosses the Tulpehocken Creek.