Neversink: Reading's "Other" Mountain - Reading, PA
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Janila
N 40° 18.300 W 075° 54.264
18T E 423144 N 4462001
Neversink Mountain is not really a mountain when compared to the Grand Canyon, but it is our mountain in Reading, PA!
Waymark Code: WMZ97V
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 10/03/2018
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Take a walk along any of the trails on Neversink Mountain and you will find beauty and history. The Lenni Lenape Indians, who were the original inhabitants, gave the mountain its Neversink name which is derived from their word Navesink, meaning at the promontory. This name proves to be extremely correct even today when one takes the Cove trail to the lookout over the Schuylkill River several hundred feet below.
When the Indians left, the white man moved in and in the 1830's began construction of the seven hotels which eventually dotted the mountain. Trolley cars which connected nearby Mount Penn to Neversink using the Gravity Trail soon followed. But by 1917, the trolley shut down due to the increased use of automobiles and the resorts became less used. Eventually, all but one of the resorts were closed, many due to suspicious fires. The Centennial Springs Hotel which was converted into a tuberculosis sanitarium remained open and unharmed. This hotel closed in 1932 as the tuberculosis epidemic faded and the hotel was demolished.
Today, the Berks County Conservancy has obtained possession and control of much of the mountain and has done a wonderful job of constructing trails and bridges and dotting the mountain with signboards pointing out the history of the area.
ISBN Number: 1880683180
Author(s): Paul A. Druzba
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