Berks County’s Last Mountain Lion
Berks History Center 940 Centre Avenue, Reading, PAIn August 1874, the Reading Eagle reported that hunters in Albany Township had killed the last Berks County mountain lion. In the weeks that followed, dozens of newspapers from across the country shared this story, with each providing new sensational details of the hunters' ordeal. Interest in the tale was rekindled decades later, after the taxidermied remains […]