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| BERRYSBURG. This beautiful little borough, with a population of 329, is on the
road which runs from Millersburg through
Lykens into Schuylkill county, and is about 35 miles from
Harrisburg. The town was laid out by John Adam Heller in December 1819. John Paul Jr.
surveyed he town for Mr. Heller, who named it Berrysburg - the name being suggested
by that of Berry's Mountain, in the vicinity. The town was incorporated as a borough
in December 14, 1869, the first Burgess being Jonathan Tobias. The first school in the
place was organized in about the year 1826, and the Berrysburg Seminary was organized
about 1857 and reorganized in 1879. It is stated that Rev. H. S. Bosler, built the old
Seminary in 1851, and that its first teacher was Edward Whitman. Many of the school
teachers in the northern part of the county in the years gone by received instruction at
this old Seminary, which has long been abandoned and the building torn down. That the
people of Berrysburg were of a literary taste is shown, not only because of the existence
of the old Seminary, but also because of the organization of the Berrysburg Library
Association in 1863. the association has a library of about 500 volumes of the best books
of the time. Probably no other town as small as this one was in 1863 contained both
a Seminary and a Public Library.
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