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History · Dauberville

Dauberville’s post office opened in 1889

Most of Dauberville was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1944 on and old-book passages.

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How Dauberville began

When was Dauberville founded?

1889

The Dauberville post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 762137 years
Founding year: the first Dauberville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Dauberville’s past

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The story so far

Dauberville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dauberville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Dauberville is a census-designated place in Centre Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located near the Schuylkill River near the Ontelaunee Township border. Students living in the town attend the Schuylkill Valley School District. The community is located within the Reading, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 762 residents.

Its first post office opened in 1889. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 848 to 762 (-10%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Dauberville in 1909

Passages that mention Dauberville, cut from the printed page as they were published.

missioners of Berks county in 1906-07-08, during which time he designed and introduced into Berks county bridges of reinforced concrete. The most noted of these bridges is the one across the Schuylkill river at Dauberville, consisting of four seventy-five-foot spans of reinforced concrete, and a to…
Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, embracing a concise history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families, comp. by Morton L. Montgomery ..1909 · page 390Read the page →
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missioners of Berks county in 1906-07-08, during which time he designed and introduced into Berks county bridges of reinforced concrete. The most noted of these bridges is the one across the Schuylkill river at Dauberville, consisting of four seventy-five-foot spans of reinforced concrete, and a total length of four hundred feet. This is considered one of the most artistic structures in Eastern Pennsylvania, and Mr. Davis was highly complimented

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

By decade

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On the map

Dauberville on the map, 1944 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dauberville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Dauberville on the 1944 USGS mapDauberville on the 1956 USGS mapDauberville on the 1968 USGS mapDauberville on the 1978 USGS mapDauberville on the 1983 USGS map1944Reading sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Dauberville.

Famous people

Famous people close to Dauberville

Nobody well known was born in Dauberville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Bill BeckleyAmerican artist · b. 1946
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Tom BrownAmerican football and baseball player · b. 1940
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Amy ShumanAmerican baseball player · b. 1925
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Doug ClemensAmerican baseball player · b. 1939
Richard EtchbergerUS Air Force NCO and posthumous recipient of th… · b. 1933
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Arlington Nelson LindenmuthAmerican artist · b. 1856

Questions about Dauberville’s history

What year was Dauberville founded?

The Dauberville post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.