BOYERTOWN PA – A year-long series of special events and programming is planned during 2025 by the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles to observe its 60th anniversary of “preserving Pennsylvania’s transportation heritage.”
Its popular community events – Fastnacht Day, Diner Day, Cars & Cones, and Duryea Day – will make their regular returns. Several museum special events also are in the works to acknowledge contributions to Boyertown’s rich history of manufacturing by the Carriage Factory and its successor, the Boyertown Auto Body Works.
The museum, beginning in April, expects to feature a special exhibit of its Duryea automobiles. It will commemorate Charles Duryea’s move to Reading PA in 1900. Charles and his brother, Frank, are credited with building the first commercially available car in the United States in 1892. Charles moved to Reading soon after to build his own unique automobiles…