Antique wagons and buggies to pull Centerport into 2nd century
BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
CENTERPORT There is a
tiny town in the heart of Berks
County that boasts it’s 100th an
niversary this year.
Located between Leesport and
Hamburg, about 20 minutes north
of Reading, is Centerport. With one
of the smallest populations in the
state, (just over 200), Centerport is
rallying all of the local craftsmen,
firemen, horsemen, and just plain
nostalgia lovers into organizing a
Centennial celebration that will be
many times larger than its size.
Next Saturday, May 19, is when
the grand celebration is scheduled
Mervin Moyer, Leesport, is shown with rebuilt Schwab delivery wagon he'll be
displaying in Centerport Centennial parade in Berks County next Saturday. Wagon dates
back to the later 1890's and comes out of Lebanon County.
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to take place. With events
scheduled throughout the year and
a centennial ball already held, next
Saturday will be the climax of the
celebration.
A parade featuring over 20
teams of horses and ponies, plus
fire-engines and antique vehicles is
scheduled for 1 p.m. However, the
town will be filled throughout the
day with local
demonstrating their ''century-old
crafts. The crafts will be assem
bled in the center of town starting
at 9 a.m.
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loading guns; Mr. & Mrs. Joe
Henne, Mohrsville, recaneing
chairs; Bonnie Carin, BernviUe,
demonstrating her spuming wheel;
John Kreider, Centerport, fancy
Pennsylvania Dutch painting of
wagons and chairs; Sherry
Phillips, Centerport, demon
strating wood-burning designs on
guns; Charles Deßoeser, Cen
terport, making grandfather clock
cases; Morgan Reinbold, Oley,
silversmith; Edward Lesher,
Leesport, wood carving; Rita
Spate, Centerport, will be shoeing
horses; Roderick SuUiff, Mohr
sville, will be shearing sheep; and
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Spring wagon is another of the antique horse-drawn
vehicles in collection of Mervin Moyer, Leesport.
antique cars, motorcycles, horse
drawn vehicles, and Reber,
Gruber, and Schwab wagons for
everyone to browse around.
The parade will include over 40
units with many of them appearing
in antique costume. They will
march through the town and
conclude at the Central Berks Fire
Company where refreshments will
be available.
Now mostly a residential town,
Centerport saw much industry in
its early years. A book about the
history of the town is being com
piled by Mr. and Mrs. Milt Blatt,
Mohrsville, and will be available
by special order from them.
Centerport has resisted several
attempts by individuals and
organizations in the past to
combine the borough with Centre
Township for added advantages to
both citizenships. But, because
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they wanted to keep the identity of
the borough intact, the older
residents of the town have stopped
as many changes in the town as
they were able. Now, the pace of
the town is even slower than the
huh-bub experienced a century ago
when the town was host to several
blacksmith businesses, several
factories and feed mills, and
several restaurants and tavern.
Today, the town, without public
sewage and water, experiences
problems with some residential
overcrowding in its small areas
However, it still boasts some of the
buildings and businesses that were
there a century ago.
For a modem view of the past,
the Centerport Centennial Com
mittee invites everyone next
Saturday to an old-fashioned
celebration of 100 years of
existence.