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 District Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tulpehocken schools combine the feel of country schoolhouses with the technology and accommodations necessary for students to achieve in today's modern world.
The Tulpehocken Area School District is located in Northwestern Berks County about 45 miles east of Harrisburg, 20 miles north of Reading and 45 miles west of Allentown.
In 1961, in order to accommodate the increasing population in the area, Jefferson Township entered in a joint venture with the other four school districts to form what is now the Tulpehocken Area School District.
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 Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tulpehocken Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In the township the population was spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township was $45,708, and the median income for a family was $47,880.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Tulpehocken_Township,_Pennsylvania   (350 words)

  
 Community Salutes
It was in 1850 when residents of what was then the sprawling Cumru Township sought to form their own government in the western reaches of Cumru.
The township's topography and demographics range from thickly populated suburban housing developments to rolling, rural farmland.
The mining and refining of iron ore was an early industry in Spring Township.
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 Upper Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Upper Tulpehocken Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In the township the population was spread out with 28.4% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township was $45,469, and the median income for a family was $50,188.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Upper_Tulpehocken_Township,_Pennsylvania   (371 words)

  
 Paltines Migrate to Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Paletine emigrants were restricted in New York Province to a maximum of 10 acres of land for each family and that was not enough to sustain a family.
In 1734 and by then a part of Lancaster county, the Paletine emigrant families were so many that another township had to be established and it was named "Heidelberg" after the part of Germany that most of the settlers had originally called home.
By 1752 the township of Tulpehocken was a recognized Division.
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 Pennsylvania Photographs
What was once a small log church along the Tulpehocken Creek in 1727.
The second church was built of stone in a period of May through December 1743.
Originally spanning the Union Canal as well and the Tulpehocken Creek, this bridge is now one of the focal points in the Berks County Heritage Park.
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This was not the Pennsylvania of their dreams, and not the kind of life these farmers and skilled craftsmen had hoped to lead there.
Still there remained some problems at Tulpehocken: one was that of obtaining valid titles to their lands (not another Schoharie!): another was that of securing a passable road to their market at Philadelphia.
Their earthly pilgrimage completed, somewhere in the Tulpehocken area Johann Conrad Dieffenbach and his Maria Barbara were laid to rest, far far away from Wiesloch and from Ober Siebenthal.
www.hal-pc.org /~tdhg566/JohannConradDieffenbachofTulpehocken.html   (5455 words)

  
 Christ Little Tulpehocken Church, Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This Lutheran Congregation in the Tulpehocken settlement was organized by Casper Stoever and his followers in 1742, after Reed's church was lost to the Moravians and after some Lutherans who wanted to build Christ church nearby made it plain that they didn't want Stoever as their regular pastor....
In 1744 a warrant for 110 acres was granted to Michael Shower and Jacob Miller 'for the use of the Lutheran Congregation situate in Tulpehocken township'.
A tract of 35 acres was surveyed, one of whose courses ran along the Tulpehocken creek.
www.rootsweb.com /~paberks/library/church/ChristLittleTulpehocken.html   (322 words)

  
 Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (Berks County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Pennsylvania > All counties > Berks County > Tulpehocken
Tulpehocken is a township in Berks County, in the Reading metro area.
· Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
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 The Samuel S. Reifsnyder Family
proprietor of the "Tulpehocken House" at the Blue Marsh in North Heidelberg township, was born April 12, 1839, in Lower
Wilhelm Stiely, a weaver of Stielytown, in Lower Heidelberg township.
He was a Democrat in politics and served his township as assessor, tax collector and supervisor.
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 EPA: Federal Register: Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations
John Cressman, Chairman of the Township of East Rockhill Board of Supervisors, 1622 Ridge Road, Perkasie, Pennsylvania 18944.
William Patterson, Chairman of the Township of Perkiomen Board of Supervisors, 1 Trappe Road, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426.
Approximately 100 feet upstream of the confluence with the *95 *94 (Township), Montgomery Schuylkill River.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/September/Day-06/i22806.htm   (3534 words)

  
 Genealogical Research in Berks County, Pennsylvania
Berks County, Pennsylvania was created in 1752 from parts of the original counties of Philadelphia and Chester.
Union Township was incorporated in 1753 from Lancaster County.
Prior to 1752, records for townships east of the Schuylkill River are found in Philadelphia County.
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 Pennsylvania Trout Fishing
This area in the northwestern part of Pennsylvania runs to the upper middle of the state and is home to many cool July streams.
This well-known Pennsylvania trout stream is in the Allegheny National Forest in McKean County, and optimum water temperatures prevail through much of the year.
The stocking is from township Road 580 (Mill Avenue in Stouchsberg) to the Charming Forge Road bridge.
www.pagameandfish.com /fishing/trout-fishing/pa_aa074304a   (2372 words)

  
 Upper Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (Berks County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Pennsylvania > All counties > Berks County > Upper Tulpehocken
Upper Tulpehocken is a township in Berks County, in the Reading metro area.
Median rent in Upper Tulpehocken, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $364.
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 Available Now...Berks County Warrantee Atlas
A number of Township Warrantee Maps of Berks County were platted by the state from the original warrants and surveys in the 1950s.
The townships which were not mapped by state draftsmen were Amity, Colebrookdale, District, Douglass, Earl, Hereford, Lower Alsace, Maidencreek, Maxatawny, Oley, Ontelaunee, Perry, Pike, Rockland, and Washington.
All map images shown in the atlas had to be reduced to fit the pages of the book, but the full-size images (some of which are up to 6 feet in width) are available on a companion CD.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Georg Leonard
) was born November 01, 1788 in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA, and died December 30, 1842 in Violet Township, Fairfield, Ohio, USA.
She was born February 12, 1796 in Pennsylvania, USA, and died Aft.
He was born June 30, 1785 in Mannheim, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, and died December 28, 1868 in Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, USA.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/h/a/g/Alan-Hagy/GENE5-0002.html   (548 words)

  
 BerksWeb's Berks County Tax Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Pennsylvania there is a 3.1% income tax levied on earned and unearned income.
In Berks County Pennsylvania there is a 1% income tax levied on earned income.
In Berks County Pennsylvania the real estate taxes are based on 100% of the assessed value of the property.
berksweb.com /taxes   (206 words)

  
 Ancestors of Johann Nicholaus Schneider
He settled in what is now Upper Mahanoy Township, being one of the very early settlers of the valley.
To Johann Nicholas and Anna Maria Schneider were born six children: Johan Jacob, Johan Peter, Abraham, George, Maria Christina (1779-1859, married Andraes Geist) and Anna Catharine (born July 6, 1792, married Johan Georg Erdman, 1787-1858; she died Aug. 20, 1842, and is buried at Herb Church).
(PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, later to be known as the First Series: These twelve volumes reproduce papers selected chiefly from the files at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of the State of Pennsylvania, printed in chronological order to parallel and supplement Colonial Records.
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 Genealogy Helplist Pennsylvania
To add your name to the Pennsylvania list or if you have any questions about the Pennsylanvia page, contact me directly at boettcher@usa.com.
Newry Lutheran Cemetery, Blair Township, Published by the B.C.G.S in 1984.
Pennsylvania Church Records of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol.
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 Pennsylvania Forts
A 32-feet square palisade with four half-bastions, around a log house used by the Pennsylvania colonial militia as a subpost of Fort Lebanon.
A stone monument (1915), relocated in 1946, is located on the Appalachian Trail on the west-side of PA 183.
A settlers' fort used by the Pennsylvania colonial militia.
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 Hans Jorg STUMP (STUMPFF)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is known that Jorg Stump's brother, Michael I. Stump, was married in Tulpehocken township, Pennsylvania in 1739 and that he and his wife emigrated to the South Branch of Virginia and became neighbors of Michael Ernst Harness, Sr.
There is no known record of Hans Jorg Stump other than that he was married in 1734 to an Anna Sybilla Bacfish somewhere in America, most likely in Tulpehocken.
How the Stump brothers got to America is not clear in that both of their parents died in Germany.
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 PHMC: Governors of Pennsylvania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rheumatic fever ended the ministry of John Andrew Shulze, but this proved to be the event that led to a career in politics.
Born July 19, 1774, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County (now part of Lebanon County), Shulze was the son of a German Lutheran minister, the Reverend Christopher Emmanuel Shulze, and Eve Elizabeth Muhlenberg, daughter of the famous Henry Melchior Muhlenberg who is referred to as "the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America."
Shulze, whose native language was German, was tutored in English by his father, received an education in the eminent Lutheran atmosphere of Lancaster's Franklin College and classical studies in New York City.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/governors/schulze.asp?secid=31   (633 words)

  
 United States Attorneys' Office - Eastern District of Pennsylvania
The charge arose from a sting operation in which Customs and Border Patrol inspectors and special agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement intercepted a tractor-trailer truck containing packaged bulk marijuana as it crossed the Mexico/U.S. border in Laredo, Texas.
Agents drove the truck near Reading, PA, where BETANCOURT helped unload the marijuana and kept watch over the marijuana while it was stored at a mushroom farm in Tulpehocken Township in a storage facility where defendant CASTANEDA-CORTEZ lived.
If convicted the defendants faces a maximum possible sentence of 40 years in prison, a mandatory minimum of 5 years in prison, a mandatory minimum of 4 years supervised release up to lifetime supervised release, a $2,000,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/pae/News/Pr/2006/may/cortez.html   (195 words)

  
 PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
HARRISBURG (Nov. 13, 1996) -- Tulpehocken and Cacoosing Creeks in southeastern Pennsylvania are the first two waterways to be placed on the Pennsylvania Rivers Conservation Registry, a new state listing that recognizes local river initiatives and helps protect the special qualities of Pennsylvania rivers.
DCNR worked in partnership with the Berks County Conservancy to develop the conservation plan for the Tulpehocken and Cacoosing creeks, which flow through Lebanon and Berks counties.
the western boundary of the Carl Sensenig property in Jackson Township, Lebanon County, to the bridge near the entrance to Heidelberg County Club between Jefferson and North Heidelberg townships, Berks County -- 16.8 miles.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us /polycomm/pressrel/registry.htm   (500 words)

  
 Mitchell, Sterner, Guidinger, Glasser, Merkel, Atkins, Atkinson Genealogy - Person Page 55   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
     Henry Pontius was buried at Pontius Family Cemetery, Mifflinburg, Union, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He was born on 25 February 1743/44 at Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He was the son of Johannes Pontius and Anna Catharina Zeller.
Johannes Pontius married Anna Catharina Zeller, daughter of Johann Heinrich Zeller and Anna Maria Briegel, on 14 January 1742/43 at Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Johannes Pontius died in May 1794 at Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at age 76.
Anna Catharina Zeller married Johannes Pontius, son of Johann Peter Pontius and Anna Rosina Catharina Hauck, on 14 January 1742/43 at Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Anna Catharina Zeller died on 8 December 1771.
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 Upper Tulpehocken township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) Detailed Profile
Notable locations in Upper Tulpehocken township: Fort Northkill, Green Acres Golf Course.
68% of Upper Tulpehocken township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
www.city-data.com /township/Upper-Tulpehocken-Berks-PA.html   (111 words)

  
 Church Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Includes records from Friedens Union Church, Allemangel Lutheran Church, Blue Mountain Church (Upper Tulpehocken Township), Rosenthal, New Bethel, or Corner Church, Dunkel's Reformed Church, Windsor (Ziegel's) Church, Reed's Church, Bern Church, Tulpehocken or Christ Church (Jefferson Township), Host Church, Hains Church (Heidelberg, Cacusi, St. John's), and Records of Rev. Waldschmidt.
Little Britain Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Fulton Township, Lancaster County, PA by Robert J. Patton, Jr., 2001 (softcover) An annotated compilation with introduction to the Little Britain Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Salem Church of Kissel Hill, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, PA collected and compiled by Eva M. Myers and edited by Martha J. Xakellis, 2001 (softcover) Lutheran records for this church including baptisms, burials, marriages and congregation members.
www.lancasterhistory.org /bookstore/church.html   (861 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Georg Leonard
She was born January 03, 1765 in Berks, Pennsylvania, USA, and died October 11, 1848 in near Waynesboro, Augusta, Virginia, USA.
November 23, 1784, Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA; d.
October 20, 1792, Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA; d.
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 Berks County Horse Farm, Training and Boarding Facility for Sale in Pennsylvania
Berks County Horse Farm, Training and Boarding Facility for Sale in Pennsylvania
The Lounge / Training area used as a sitting area for parents of riders and doubles as a meeting area for lectures and workshops on riding and caring for your horses.
View Other Great Farms for Sale in Pennsylvania - Click Here!
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