January 13th, 1908 began like any other day in Boyertown, Berks County. But after the sun went down and the curtain went up on a new play, everything changed. Tonight, we begin a countdown to the ...
The Boyertown Area Historical Society held a memorial wreath-laying ceremony in Fairview Cemetery Jan. 16, remembering the 171 victims, including 25 unidentified, of the 1908 Rhoads Opera House Fire. ...
Editor’s note: This column was originally in “A 20th Century Journey 1900-1909,” which was published March 29, 1999. On Monday night, Jan. 13, 1908, almost 400 men, women and children gathered in the ...
BOYERTOWN – Under blue skies, a group of 40 people gathered at Fairview Cemetery to honor the lives lost in a Boyertown fire 117 years ago. The Boyertown Area Historical Society hosted the Rhoads ...
One of the hardest things about the making of WFMZ's new documentary on the Rhoads Opera House fire was capturing the emotion of the time. But as WFMZ's Jaccii Farris tells us, one Boyertown artist ...
Jacob and Mary Ann Weller went to the theater on Jan. 13, 1908. That night, the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown caught fire, killing 170 people, including the Wellers. “I cannot imagine what they had ...
The bustling Tagert gristmill in Gilbertsville was unusually still on the morning of Jan. 14, 1908. The night before, miller Robert Tagert, 73; his wife, Ellen, 61; and their unmarried daughter, Rosa ...
The bustling Tagert gristmill in Gilbertsville was unusually still on the morning of Jan. 14, 1908. The night before, miller Robert Tagert, 73; his wife, Ellen, 61; and their unmarried daughter, Rosa ...
The bustling Tagert gristmill in Gilbertsville was unusually still on the morning of Jan. 14, 1908. The night before, miller Robert Tagert, 73; his wife, Ellen, 61; and their unmarried daughter, Rosa ...
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