From the Ashes at Boyertown – Safety Legislation for All
Posted by Mary Jane Schneider on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on From the Ashes at Boyertown – Safety Legislation for All Pennsylvania’s most disastrous fire broke out one hundred years ago, on Monday, January 13, 1908, killing 170 people in the Rhoads Opera House, a second-floor auditorium on East Philadelphia Avenue in the small Berks County community of Boyertown. The World Almanac records the disaster as one of the five worst fires in the United States of the twentieth century. No family in the community of...read more