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Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Furnace Hill (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Furnace Hill. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Furnace Hill is located in Berks County .
To see how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Berks County : Chester , Lancaster , Lebanon , Lehigh , Montgomery & Schuylkill .
Below are the counties that are near Furnace Hill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Furnace Hill:
Berks County (The home county of Furnace Hill)
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Birdsboro (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Robeson Crossing (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Robeson Crossing is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robeson Crossing Lorane (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Lorane is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorane Monocacy (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Monocacy is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Amity Gardens (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Amity Gardens is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity Gardens Stonersville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Brice Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Brice Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brice Village Exeter Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Exeter Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Village Bally (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Scarlets Mill (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Scarlets Mill is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scarlets Mill Gibraltar (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Jacksonwald (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Geigertown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Geigertown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geigertown Bucks County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Argus (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Argus is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus Milford Square (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Milford Square is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford Square Steinsburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Steinsburg is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinsburg Trumbauersville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Derstines (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Derstines is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derstines Rich Hill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Rich Hill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Hill Zionhill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Zionhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zionhill Sellersville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Selsie Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Selsie Village is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selsie Village Hilltop (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Hilltop is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Quakertown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Shelly (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Shelly is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelly Fairhill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Fairhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhill Fairhill has also been known as:
Schnabletown Snoveltown Chester County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Pottstown Landing (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Pottstown Landing is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottstown Landing South Pottstown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
South Pottstown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pottstown Elverson (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Knauertown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Knauertown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knauertown Kenilworth (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Kenilworth is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth Loag (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Loag is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loag Coventryville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Coventryville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventryville Isabella (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Isabella is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella Bucktown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Bucktown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktown Nantmeal Village (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Nantmeal Village is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantmeal Village Pughtown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Pughtown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pughtown Fricks Lock (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Fricks Lock is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fricks Lock Slonaker (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Slonaker is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slonaker Delaware County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Edgemont (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Edgemont is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont Saint Davids (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Green Countrie Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Ithan (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Ithan is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ithan Radnor Station (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Radnor Station is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radnor Station Radnor (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Wayne (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Glen Mills (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Marple (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Marple is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marple Montrose Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Montrose Village is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose Village Rosemont (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Indiana County
Ernest (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Ernest is located in Indiana County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernest Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Churchtown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Beartown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Beartown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Terre Hill (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Red Run (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Red Run is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Run Blue Ball (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
East Earl (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaverland Reamstown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Meadville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Meadville is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville Blainsport (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Blainsport is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blainsport Denver (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Hinkletown (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Hinkletown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkletown New Holland (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Newmanstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Sheridan (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Sheridan is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Stricklerstown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Stricklerstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stricklerstown Richland (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Schaefferstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Johnstown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Johnstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown Myerstown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Prescott (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Prescott is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott Avon Heights (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Avon Heights is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Heights Avon (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Avon is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Greble (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Greble is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greble Miners Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Miners Village is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miners Village Lehigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Alburtis (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensingersville Hosensack (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Hosensack is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hosensack Powder Valley (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Powder Valley is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Valley New Smithville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
New Smithville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Smithville Macungie (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Zionsville Zionsville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Hynemansville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Hynemansville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hynemansville Wallner ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Wallner is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallner Weisenberg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Weisenberg is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weisenberg Ancient Oaks (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Ancient Oaks is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ancient Oaks Dillingerville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Dillingerville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillingerville Dillingerville has also been known as:
Dillinger Dillingers Ville Dillingers Dillingersville Stahlers Montgomery County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Bramcote (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote West Pottsgrove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
West Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pottsgrove Stowe (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Halfway House (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Halfway House is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway House Pottstown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Pottsgrove (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottsgrove Gilbertsville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Sanatoga (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Fagleysville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Fagleysville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fagleysville New Hanover (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Congo (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Congo is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Congo Anise (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Anise is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anise Limerick (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Schuylkill County
The following are listed by their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Port Clinton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Auburn (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Lake Population from the 2020 Census: 645 people
Jefferson (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Jefferson is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Rauschs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Rauschs is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauschs Aucheys (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Aucheys is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aucheys Summit Station (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Summit Station is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Station Rene Mont (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Rene Mont is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rene Mont Lake Wynonah (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Lake Wynonah is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wynonah Landingville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Landingville is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landingville Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
McKeansburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
McKeansburg is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKeansburg New Ringgold (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Moyers (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Moyers is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moyers
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Furnace Hill, see our County-by-County Page for Furnace Hill .
Cemeteries Near Furnace Hill ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Furnace Hill.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Furnace Hill - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Furnace Hill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Immaculate Conception Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
St. Michaels Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
DeTurk Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
St. Johns Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Friedens Bible Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friedens Bible Church Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Friedens Bible Church Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> Birdsboro . The Friedens Bible Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Friedens Cemetery Wicklein Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2343568 <2>
St. Pauls UMC Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Young - Kissling Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
St. James Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Schwarzwald Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
St. Pauls Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Forest Hills Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Continue List (360 more) ...
Second Baptist Church Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery The Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Plow Church Cemetery Robeson Cemetery Shenkel UCC Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Furnace Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Furnace Hill.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Furnace Hill, with the one closest to Furnace Hill listed first.
Birdsboro (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Baumstown (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Baumstown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baumstown South Birdsboro (Less than 2 miles to the south)
South Birdsboro is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Birdsboro Monocacy (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Monocacy is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Monocacy Station (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Monocacy Station is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Station Scarlets Mill (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Scarlets Mill is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scarlets Mill Bally (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Stonersville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Gibraltar (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Geigertown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Geigertown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geigertown Douglassville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Jacksonwald (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Continue List (15 more) ...
Earlville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Earlville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earlville Yellow House (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Yellow House is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow House Limekiln (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Furnace Hill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Furnace Hill .
Newspapers Published in Furnace Hill ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 150 newspapers that have been published in the area around Furnace Hill.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Furnace Hill, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Furnace Hill.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Furnace Hill:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Berks County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bucks County Chester County Delaware County Indiana County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County Montgomery County Schuylkill County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Furnace Hill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Berks County: https://www.berkspa.gov/
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Furnace Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Furnace Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.