Excerpt from History of Montgomery County Within the Schuylkill Valley Could a book nowzbe found giving, for a certain year, the number of houses and shops in every village of Pennsylvania, say a hundred years ago, it would prove quite a desideratum and would furnish information which could not otherwise be obtained. That a work of this kind is wanted, whatever encouragement this may meet with, can be proven by repeated paragraphs which have at different times appeared in our local newspapers, inviting to such an undertaking. In closing our labors, we are led sincerely to believe that we were engaged in a laudable work, and that many a one, as he arises from its perusal, will feel himself (so we hope) a better and a wiser man. W. J. B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.