The following list is just a small collection of old place names and their locations. If you know of a place that is hard to locate, please submit it to Nancy.
Place Name | Location |
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Allemangel | Albany Twp. |
Allendale Heights | Located in Perry Twp. |
Alliance | Located in Bethel Township |
Athol | Amityville |
Bethel | Millersburg |
Blottadahl | Irish Creek Road on Blottadahl Rd, Centre Twp. |
Brookside | Located in Cumru Twp. |
Brumfield | Weavertown |
Brumfieldville | Weavertown |
California Glen | Morgantown/Churchtown area |
Colby's Corner | Located in Robeson Twp. |
Cootstown | Kutztown |
Coxtown | Fleetwood |
Dengler's | Mount Penn |
Edrisville | Rte 501 and Frystown Rd. Bethel Twp. |
Forest, The | Robeson/Plow |
Friedensburg | Oley |
Fritztown | Lower end in Spring Township; upper end in South Heidelberg |
Gantertown | Richtown, now included in the city of Reading |
Glauberstown | East end of Strausstown |
Goosetown | AKA Willow Glen; south east end of Morgantown |
Goshenhoppen | Bally |
Hetrichestettle | Obold |
Host | Tulpehocken Twp. |
Huffsville | Located in Hereford Twp. |
Levan | Kutztown |
Limestone | Greshville, Douglass Twp. |
Locust Grove | Amity |
Middletown | Womelsdorf |
Millersburg | Bethel |
Mt. Aetna | Wohleberstown |
New Store | Amityville |
Nigger Hill | Birdsboro area |
Obold | Mt. Pleasant |
Pig Hill | Bern Twp. |
Rattlesnake Hill | Douglass Twp. |
Reberstown | Shubert (intersection of Rte 419 & Shubert Rd.) |
Richtown | Part of Reading |
Ryeland | Womesldorf Train Station |
Schoeneck | Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co. |
Shoen Eck | Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co. |
Shoeneck | Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co. |
Smoketown | adjacent to Bethel in Bethel Twp. |
Spring (not to be confused with Spring Twp.) | Womesldorf Train Station |
Spunktown | Engelsville, Colebrookdale Twp. |
Stumptown | Fredericksburg, Lebanon Co. |
Stumptown | New Danville, Lancaster Co. |
Weitzeltown | Spring Township (between Sinking Spring and Montello |
Wesnerville | Stony Run |
Wohleberstown | Mt. Aetna |
Woodchoppertown | Earl Township |
Wooltown | Wooltown Road and Ruth Ave, Wernersville |
Wyomissing | Gouglersville |
The following web site lists some additional old and Pennsylvania Dutch place names:
Pennsylvaanisch-Deitsche Blatznaame in Lengeschter Kaundi (Lancaster County, PA)
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