Tuesday, January 15, 2008

One display at the Boyertown Area Historical Society is a map of Boyertown, PA, at the time of the Rhoads Opera House Fire. Sites of significance during the fire were marked.














1. The Friendship Hook and Ladder Fire Company at the intersection of South Reading Avenue and Warwick street. It was later torn down and the site is now a Cumberland Farms convenience store.


2. The Keystone House stood at the corner of Third Street and South Reading Avenue. It was torn down and is the current site of theFriendship Hook & Ladder Fire Company's new building.







3. The Keystone Fire House on North Reading Avenue. The fire company moved to a lot behind North Reading Avenue, and this building is now offices for National Penn Bank.






7. Fairview Cemetery on West Philadelphia Avenue. This was the old entrance. Now there's no wrought iron fence or sign, but there are brick columns at the entrance and exit.

8. Good Shepherd U.C.C. on West Philadelphia Avenue. This is the church with the town clock.




18. The Colebrookdale Railroad Station in Boyertown stood at the railroad tracks off Third Street. It was on the same block as the Rhoads Opera House.



24. D.C. Brumbach Furniture Store and James Brown's Morgue was at the corner of East Philadelphia Avenue and Washington Street, catty corner from the Rhoads Opera House. This is currently the building of Richard Zuber Realty.



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