The Conrad Weiser Area
The Conrad Weiser Area

Author: Carl Ganster

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439651620

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In 1729, John Conrad Weiser, the most famous citizen of the area, joined his fellow Germans and built his homestead just east of present-day Womelsdorf. The settlement grew in the 1800s with a turnpike, a canal, a railroad, and more highways. Villages were started, and three became boroughs. Womelsdorf is the oldest borough in the western part of Berks County, while Robesonia and Wernersville were railroad towns laid out in the 1850s. Some remain villages to this day. Stouchsburg grew up around the turnpike and the canal. Charming Forge was the first industry in the area, and the village still looks like it did 200 years ago. The remaining parts of the area are rural, and some of the best growing soil is found in the Conrad Weiser area. In 1954, seven municipalities joined to form the Conrad Weiser Area School District. This book covers photographs from 1900 until the 1960s and includes all municipalities.

Healers, Harmed & Harmful
Healers, Harmed & Harmful

Author: Conrad Weiser

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780800626303

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'At a time when clergy misconduct is broadly reported, Conrad Weiser offers a straight forward, theoretically orthodox, and practical way of both understanding and addressing the issues. Leadership laity, and clergy would be served well by reading and reflecting on Weiser's wisdom.'Fr. Canice Connors, OFM

God on Three Sides
God on Three Sides

Author: Jonathan M. Wilson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 153266320X

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Do people who follow the same religion the same way also make the same political choices? Even if that might not be always true, is it true enough that it should be treated as an axiom in America's popular culture? God on Three Sides explores two communities where ethnic Germans in early America followed the same religion in the same way but, within each community, held very different views regarding the political issues of the eighteenth century. The political issues in focus are what surfaced in the crises of the wars against the French, the engagement with indigenous peoples, and the American Revolution.