Indian Names and Villages in Berks County

From Morton Montgomery's History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1909 Edition, pp. 22-23.

Indian Names

All the prominent streams in the county have been given Indian names; also two townships and two mountains. These names are as follows:

Villages

Some of the Indians had villages in this district of territory. They were located in different sections, more particularly, however, along the Schuylkill and its principal tributaries, and known as follows:

Indian Relics

A large number of Indian relics have been found in different parts of the county, numbering about twenty thousand. Many of them were found at certain places where villages were situated. Over sixty-five hundred were found on and in the vicinity of Poplar Neck and Lewis's Neck. Prof. David B. BRUNNER secured a large individual collection, numbering over forty-three hundred. The relics of Ezra HIGH, found on Poplar Neck, were presented to the Historical Society of Berks County.

Henry K. DEISHER, of Kutztown, has a superb collection, local as well as general, the total numbering upward of twenty thousand. [See mention of it in the Borough of Kutztown, Chapter XI; also in his biographical sketch, which appears in this publication.


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