Top 10 Pennsylvania Boroughs/Small Towns to Visit
Join me as I count down the 10 best boroughs in Pennsylvania to visit. And then, please argue in the comments, and share YOUR favorite boroughs.
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01:10 - #10
02:19 - #9
03:15 - #8
04:56 - #7
06:28 - #6
07:45 - #5
09:09 - #4
10:11 - #3
11:41 - #2
13:34 - #1
16:41 - Closing
Visit the Pagoda Reading PA and William Penn Tower
On this tour, we take a trip the high point of Reading and visit the Pagoda and the William Penn Fire Tower. We travel all over the city in search of its railroad history and pick up a snack at Unique Pretzel. I'll see you On Tour!
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00:00 – Antietam Lake Park
02:00 - The Reading Pagoda
02:09 - The Schuylkill River
06:25 - Unique Pretzels
06:50 - Readings Railroads
10:21 - William Penn Fire Tower
12:35 - Reading Pagoda Night Timelapse
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Cultural and Culinary Highlights of Reading Pennsylvania
There's more to Reading than pretzels and pagodas. Pennsylvania's fourth-largest city is spread out across ten square miles, with most attractions located east of the Schuylkill River. The Berks County Heritage Center is an ideal first stop for a Reading newbie. Here, you'll get a historical overview of the area in a serene setting along the Tulpehocken Creek. And you'll have to walk across one of Pennsylvania's famous covered bridges to get there.
Like many American cities that has seen major industries leave, Reading has had to get creative with former industrial spaces. For an example of this, check out GoggleWorks, which challenges human beings to transform lives through unique interactions with art in an 1871 goggle factory.
If you're an aviation geek, check out the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, where you can see a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount along with an Eastern Airlines Martin 4-0-4. Both aircraft still take to the friendly skies at least once a year. There's also a cool firefighter museum south of downtown.
In Downtown Reading, upscale restaurants like Judy's on Cherry and Cheers American Bistro are mixed in with more casual places like Mofongo and the classic Peanut Bar. At the latter, you can throw your empty peanut shells on the floor. For the best variety, head across the Schuylkill River to West Reading, which has a vibrant main street (Penn Ave) lined with small boutiques, award-winning cupcakes and international restaurants. Chatty Monks is probably the quirkiest place in West Reading. Here, you can enjoy Belgian beers along with classic American pub food with an Indian twist.
If you're planning to explore Reading without a car, I recommend staying at the DoubleTree across from the Santander Arena. But you will need a car to visit the Reading Pagoda as well as most of the museums.
For more on what to see and eat in Reading, head over to my blog
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Pennsylvania
The Keystone state -- key to America's independence. Check out the history and culture of Pennsylvania, where many German-speaking immigrants settled, with Christopher Hoh. #50states #PA
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Hello, my name is Christopher Hoh. I work in the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and I was born and brought up in the the Keystone State.
Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 colonies. It was called the Keystone State in the 18th century because of its central location and role in U.S. history. The first capital of the United States was in Philadelphia.
Before it was colonized, the area was home to Native American tribes, including the Lenape and the Susquehannok.
The name Pennsylvania means, Penn's Woods. In 1681, England's King Charles II gave the land to William Penn as payment for a debt of 16,000 pounds. This was one of the largest land grants to an individual in history.
William Penn was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, who were persecuted in England. So Penn established the colony for any people persecuted for their faith.
Many religious exiles from Europe settled in Pennsylvania, including the Amish, an Anabaptist sect. Today, the Amish live much as they did in the 17th century, without modern conveniences such as electricity and cars.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Germans migrated to Pennsylvania in large numbers. English‐speakers mispronounced the German word, Deutsch, as Dutch, and these immigrants became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
In many Pennsylvania communities, German was spoken as the language of everyday life into the early 1900's. You can still hear German dialects in the farmers' markets of Lancaster and Reading, my home town.
The language is similar to Germany's Palatinate dialect. For example, the man's dog -- der Hund des Mannes -- is this in PA Dutch -- em Mann sei Hund.
Today, 12.7 million people live in Pennsylvania, the sixth most populous state in the U.S. It covers over 46,000 square miles (more than 119,000 km2 ).
Pennsylvania has several large cities. Philadelphia was known in the 1700's as the Athens of America because of its rich cultural life.
Part of that is attributed to Pennsylvania's most famous citizen, Benjamin Franklin -- author, inventor, philosopher, businessman, diplomat and revolutionary leader.
Philadelphia is also home to the Liberty Bell, the icon of American freedom. It remains on view, cracked, on Independence Mall, where the Continental Congress met and in 1776 declared independence from Britain.
Here are some other firsts from Pennsylvania:
The first medical school, hospital, library and insurance company were established in there.
The first commercially drilled oil well near Titusville produced the first U.S. oil boom in 1859.
The first U.S. Envoy to Austria in 1838 was Henry A.P. Muhlenberg, from Lancaster.
And the Philadelphia Zoo is the oldest zoo in America.
My hometown, Reading, is located in southeastern Pennsylvania. Formerly a textile and manufacturing center, Reading became known as The Factory Outlet Capital of the World.
The surrounding area has been called the Snack Food Capital of the World, leading all other states in the production of pretzels, chips and candy.
The state has some other interesting food facts.
The Yuengling Brewery, in Pottsville, is the oldest operating brewery in America, established in 1829.
A little further west is Hershey, the birthplace of Hershey chocolate bars. The town smells of chocolate and the street lights are shaped like Hershey kisses.
And don't forget Philly cheese steaks.
Pennsylvania gave birth to one US President -- James Buchanan in the 1800s.
Vice President Joe Biden was born in Scranton.
Many actors also come from Pennsylvania including Kevin Bacon, Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Sharon Stone, to name a few.
Pennsylvania has always had a creative music scene. Each religious sect that settled in Pennsylvania brought with it a unique style of music. The Moravians, in Bethlehem, introduced organs and trombones into their worship. The Mennonites and Lutherans sang heartily, from German hymnbooks. And the Ephrata Cloister was known for beautiful harmony.
Popular singers today include Taylor Swift, from Wyomissing, and Christina Aguilera and George Benson, from Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia is also the birthplace of the famous TV program, American Bandstand, which introduced singers and bands to teenagers for more than 20 years.
I travel the world but I still have a strong connection to my home state: I'm a career diplomat -- like Benjamin Franklin, our country's first envoy. I'm also a composer who benefited from my home state's musical milieu.
I'm proud to come from Pennsylvania, the land of the Liberty Bell, which helped inspire the cause of freedom for all humanity.
This railfan TRESPASSED AND SET A SWITCH! | Sebastian Deyoung the Railfan Explained
DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING SHOWN IN THIS VIDEO. THIS IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
This video explains some recent drama in the Railfan community about a youtuber who trespassed and messed with railroad equipment, and what could have happened if something had gone wrong while he did such activities.
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Reading - Pennsylvania - 4K Downtown Drive
Afternoon drive around Reading, PA.
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Reading (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing; Pennsylvania Dutch: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania. With a population of 95,112 as of the 2020 census, it is the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown. Located in the southeastern part of the state, it is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area, home to 420,152 residents. The city is part of the Delaware Valley.
Reading is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan statistical area, which also includes Philadelphia, Camden, and other urban areas. With a 2020 population of 6,228,601, the Delaware Valley is the seventh largest metropolitan region in the nation as of 2020.
Reading is situated roughly halfway between the state's most populous city, Philadelphia, and the state capital, Harrisburg. It lies along a major transportation route from Central to Eastern Pennsylvania, and lent its name to the now-defunct Reading Company (popularly the Reading Railroad), which transported anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the eastern United States via the Port of Philadelphia. Reading Railroad is one of the four railroad properties in the classic United States version of the Monopoly board game. Reading was one of the first localities where outlet shopping became a tourist industry. It has been known as The Pretzel City, because of numerous local pretzel bakeries; currently, Bachman, Dieffenbach, Tom Sturgis, and Unique Pretzel bakeries call the Reading area home. In recent years, the Reading area has become a destination for cyclists. With more than 125 miles of trails in five major preserves, it is an International Mountain Bicycling Association Ride Center.
According to 2010 U.S. Census data, Reading had the highest share of citizens living in poverty in the nation for cities with populations of more than 65,000. Reading's poverty rate fell over the next decade. Reading's poverty rate in the 2018 five-year American Community Survey showed that 35.4% of the city's residents were below the poverty line, or less than the infamous 41.3% from 2011, when Reading was declared the poorest small city in the nation.
Reading is located 38.8 miles (62.4 km) southwest of Allentown and 62.9 miles (101.2 km) northwest of Philadelphia.
Collegeville To Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Collegeville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia on the Perkiomen Creek. Collegeville and the surrounding area are rapidly growing. The borough of Collegeville is home to Ursinus College, as well as many local businesses. Outside the borough, Pfizer's pharmaceutical division and Dow Chemical share a global research and development campus. There is also a GlaxoSmithKline research and development facility. The Providence Town Center, an open-air shopping and restaurant mall, is located just outside Collegeville. Collegeville offers multiple attractions, including skydiving, numerous shops and restaurants, horse-back riding and its well-known car show.
Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia and 20 miles southeast of Reading, on the Schuylkill River. Pottstown is the center of a productive farming and dairying region. Pottstown's iron and steel interests were once extensive. There were large rolling mills, furnaces, nail works, textile mills, bridge works, agricultural-implement works, boiler and machine shops, foundries, and manufactories of bricks, silks, shirts, hosiery, etc.
YODER'S RESTAURANT & BUFFET (Dinner) New Holland Pa
Join us for a trip to Yoders Country Market to try their dinner buffet. We have been by this place several times to do Shady Maple but never stopped here. This time because alot of asked us to go here we decided to do it. We are glad we did. This place had a very good variety of items and awesome deserts. So let us give you a tour.
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September Farm Cheese (Amish Country) Honey Brook Pa
Food Network featured this place and so many of you asked us to come here so we decided to give it a try. The Beautiful landscaping and plenty of outstanding seating makes this place very special. So let's take a tour around grab some lunch and get the famous Cheese Curds that got them on the Food Network. ????????
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Birdsboro To Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Birdsboro is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located along the Schuylkill River, it is 8 miles southeast of Reading. In the past, Birdsboro was noted for its large foundries and machine shops, none of which remain in operation today. Birdsboro is located on the northern edge of the Hopewell Big Woods, the largest area of contiguous forest in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Reading is a city in southern Pennsylvania. The Reading Public Museum exhibits an Egyptian mummy and works by Degas, and includes a planetarium and arboretum. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum displays vintage aircraft, including military planes. To the south, trails wind through the woodlands and streams of Nolde Forest. East, the Daniel Boone Homestead marks the 18th-century birthplace of the legendary frontiersman.
INCREDIBLE DRIVE - LAST DAY OF WINTER - BIRDSBORO & READING - PENNSYLVANIA
Welcome to back to new road trip video. This time was one of last days of winter in Pennsylvania on a beautiful day in the area of Reading. I hope you like this one and can enjoy it as much as I did. The next days I will be flying and posting new footage: Planespotting and Trip Reports. So stay tuned, and don't forget to Subscribe & share!
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Stroudsburg To Scotrun, Pennsylvania, USA
Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the state's Poconos region, approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap, at the confluence of the Brodhead, McMichaels and Pocono Creeks. It is in northeastern Pennsylvania. It is also the county seat of Monroe County.
Scotrun is an unincorporated community in Pocono Township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. Scotrun is located in the Pocono Mountains along Pennsylvania Route 611 north of Tannersville and south of Mount Pocono. Popular attractions in Scotrun include the Great Wolf Lodge - Pocono Mountains and the Four Seasons Campground.
Amish Country Drive! Weaverland to Morgantown Pennsylvania Lancaster County!
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Enjoy a summer scenic drive around Lancaster County! Starting in Beautiful Weaverland we head east and end our drive in Morgantown Lancaster County. This is the end of the county. Chester county is right down the road.
Mount Washington ll Cog Railway ll Presidential Mountains ll American Attractions
The Presidential Traverse is a strenuous and sometimes dangerous trek over the Presidential Range of New Hampshire's White Mountains. Contained almost entirely in the 750,000-acre (3,000 km2) White Mountain National Forest, the Presidential Range is a string of summits in excess of 4,000 feet (1,200 m).
The World's First Mountain Climbing Cog Railway. In the White Mountains of NH, climbing to the peak of Mount Washington. The Premier New England Attraction.
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Exploring Philadelphia's Stunning Schuylkill River Trail | 4K Cycling Adventure
Embark on a thrilling cycling tour along the picturesque Schuylkill River Trail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. This trail is renowned as one of the finest spots for morning sports in Philly, offering breathtaking views and a vibrant atmosphere. Prepare to witness a multitude of runners, cyclists, and even kayakers gracefully gliding along the river as we explore this incredible location.
0:00 Intro
0:15 Columbia Bridge
3:44 Girard Bridge
6:10 The Lighthouse at Turtle Rock
8:11 Fountain of Sea Horses
8:45 Fairmont Water Works
12:26 Market Street Bridge
14:56 Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk
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Burlington, Vermont, USA
Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is located 45 miles south of the Canada–United States border and 94 miles south of Montreal. Burlington is home to the University of Vermont and Champlain College. Vermont's largest hospital, the UVM Medical Center, is located within the city limits. The City of Burlington also has Vermont's largest airport, the Burlington International Airport, in neighboring South Burlington. In 2015, Burlington became the first city in the U.S. to run entirely on renewable energy. Burlington is situated on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, north of Shelburne Bay. It was built on a strip of land extending about 6 miles south from the mouth of the Winooski River along the lake shore and rises from the water's edge to a height of 300 feet. In 1978, the ice cream enterprise Ben & Jerry's was founded in Burlington in a renovated gas station. It became a national brand, with retail outlets in numerous cities.
4K ROAD TRIP IN READING & KENHORST PENNSYLVANIA - COLD DAY
What a cold days. But still loving driving in Pennsylvania. My second favorite place. It's always a pleasure being here. It brings me so many amazing memories, that sometimes I cry just driving here or watching videos. Thank you so much for watching and don't forget to Subscribe.
Date: January 18, 2022.
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