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Formerly Charlestown
Post Office established in 1822
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Trumbauersville, Spinnersville, near the Lehigh county line,
Steinsburg, and Milford Square. The largest and most populous is
Trumbauersville, formerly called Charlestown, a place of some sixty
families, built half a mile along both sides of the road from
Philadelphia to Allentown. Half a century ago it contained abut
a dozen houses. The Eagle hotel, which claims to be the
patriarch house of the village, has stood an hundred years, but from
appearances that of George Wonsidler is nearly as old. Several
of the dwellings are at least fify years old. For several years
Trumbauersville has been the seat of extensive cigar manufacturing,
turning out two millions of cigars a year; a single maker, Mr. Croman,
employing thirty-seven hands, and making one million six hundred
thousand annually Ther are ten shops and sixty hands engaged in
this work. I the village there are two stores and the customary
mechanics. The oldest inhabitants, in 1874, were George Heist,
eighty-three, Frederick Heist and John Jacob Smith, of abou the same
age, and Joseph Reiter, seventy-five, all of whom had lived there half
a century. There is but little room for diversity of political
opinion, ieven if allowed, for the inhabitants all vote the same
ticket. Trumbauersville has a handsome union church, built of
stone, at a cost of $15,000. The datestone tells us that it was
"founded 1769; re-built 1805; re-built 1868." The ceiling of the
audience chamber is handsomely painted in frescoe; a fine pipe organ
stands in the gallery, and a shapely spire points heavenward.
The size of the building is sixty-two by forty-six feet, and it was
originally called the Lower Milford church.
Page 452 - Davis
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Trumbauersville PA 1929
Mr. Clarance HUBER
To: Allen R. BENNER, Dr.
Carpenter and Painter (paint, roof patch, etc) |
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