The Quarries of Mount Penn: Witman, Kirschmann, and Reading Sand & Stone
Mount Penn’s western face was reshaped between the 1890s and mid-1920s by three distinct quarry operations whose scars created the notorious “white spot” visible from downtown Reading. Contemporary aerials (September 1922; August 1929) show wide, stair-stepped benches running from today’s Hillside Playground up [...]