1955 Map of Sinking Spring

About this map

The extensive campus of the Wernersville State Hospital dominates the western slopes of South Mountain, looking out over a landscape defined by the intersection of traditional Pennsylvania German farming communities and the growing industrial influence of the Reading railroad corridor. The area is marked by a string of borough settlements along the Benjamin Franklin Highway, including Wernersville and Sinking Spring, where early 1950s residential patterns begin to shift toward suburban expansion, as noted by later revisions near West Wyomissing.