Merkel Mill

Lenhartsville is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 180 at the 2020 census.

Lenhart Farm is a historic house and farm complex located in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The house was built by about 1830, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, brownstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a stone and frame bank barn (1841), springhouse, carriage house, and a number of farm-related outbuildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Greenwich Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,438 at the 2020 census.

The Dreibelbis Station Bridge is a 172-foot-long (52 m) Burr arch truss covered bridge spanning Maiden Creek between Windsor Township and Greenwich Township, south of Lenhartsville in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1869 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1981.

Dreibelbis is an unincorporated community in Greenwich Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The Jacob Leiby Farm is an historic American farm complex, Pennsylvania Bluestone quarry, and national historic district that are located in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. This complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Sacony Creek (historically Saucony Creek) is a 17.4-mile-long (28.0 km) tributary of Maiden Creek in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It flows through the borough of Kutztown, and is the main water source there. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission stock trout into the creek annually. Sacony is a name derived from a Lenni Lenape Native American language purported to mean "place of outlet" or "where two rivers run together".The Kutz Mill and Kutz's Mill Bridge are located on Sacony Creek in Greenwich Township.Sacony Creek joins Maiden Creek at the community of Virginville.The shoe manufacturer Saucony is named after Sacony Creek, as the company was founded on the banks of the Sacony in 1898, in Kutztown.

Virginville is a census-designated place in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the junction of PA 143 and Crystal Ridge Road, and is approximately seven miles to the south of the borough of Lenhartsville. The community was designated as the Virginville Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.As of the 2010 census, the population was 309 residents.

The Pinnacle is local high point on the Blue Mountain ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. Due to its location on the Appalachian Trail, and its reputation as one of the best views in Pennsylvania, the Pinnacle is heavily used by hikers.

Crystal Cave is a cave in Richmond Township, near Kutztown, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. It was discovered by William Merkel and John Gehret on November 12, 1871, and quickly became a popular tourist attraction.Shortly after its discovery, newspapers reported that it was "more beautiful than the famous Mammoth cave in Kentucky." The first "show cave" to open in Pennsylvania, it remains one of the oldest continuously operating show caves in the United States.