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Birdsboro is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located along the Schuylkill River, it is 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Reading. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 5,163. In the past, Birdsboro was noted for its large foundries and machine shops, none of which remain in operation today.
Exeter Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,500 as of the 2020 Census, making it the third-most populous municipality in Berks County after the city of Reading and Spring Township. Daniel Boone Homestead is within its borders. This formerly rural township is now made up of mostly sprawl-oriented developments along U.S. Route 422 and Route 562 Its school district also contains the adjacent borough of St. Lawrence.
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The Mordecai Lincoln House is a historic house in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania built c. 1733 by Mordecai Lincoln, the great-great-grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln. The house stands in the narrow valley of Hiester Creek on a 9-acre plot near the village of Lorane on Lincoln Road.
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Five Points, Berks County, Pennsylvania is a small village in Hereford Township located on the Perkiomen Creek near the boundary with Lehigh County. It is named for the intersection of Deer Hill, Five Points, Sigmund, Township, and Weaver Roads. The village of Hereford is located less than two miles to the SE. It is split between the ZIP codes of Barto 19504, Macungie 18062, and Zionsville 18092.
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- ↑ Smith, Susan Miers. "United States of Berks: How Albany, Alsace and Amity townships got their names." Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania, January 29, 2019.
- ↑ Montgomery, Morton L. History of Berks County in Pennsylvania , pp. 107, 147, 496, 533, 947, 951, 962, 1017. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886.
