Join us in our start of the season celebration with Christmas in Kutztown! This event will include activities ongoing throughout the day both in our community and on KU’s campus. The day starts off on campus at 9:30am with Breakfast with Santa and runs throughout the day ending with the town tree- lighting ceremony beginning at at 5:15pm. Help us make this Christmas event our best yet with family fun for everyone!
Christmas in Kutztown AF fund Raiser
- November 30, 2018
- Kutztown
Kutztown
George (Coots) Kutz purchased 130 acres (53 ha) of land that became Kutztown on June 16, 1755, from Peter Wentz who owned much of what is now Maxatawny Township. Kutz first laid out his plans for the town in 1779. The first lots in the new town of Cootstown (later renamed Kutztown) were purchased in 1785 by Adam Dietrich and Henry Schweier.
Kutztown was incorporated as a borough on April 7, 1815, and is the second oldest borough in Berks County after Reading, which became a borough in 1783 and became a city in 1847.
As with the rest of Berks County, Kutztown was settled mainly by Germans, most of whom came from the Palatinate region of southwest Germany, which borders the Rhine river.
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