. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. r to conclude,Kutz recognized the advantageousness ofthe crossing of the Saucony as a town , as the Schultz map shows, therewere no houses on the site of Kutztownin 1755, there were evidently some, per-haps a number at the time Kutz laid outhis purchase. Why Kutz waited for twenty-four years before laying out this town can-not now be told. Perhaps the develop- Dietrich, and six in-lots and eleven out-lots to Henry Schweier, the the same time
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. r to conclude,Kutz recognized the advantageousness ofthe crossing of the Saucony as a town , as the Schultz map shows, therewere no houses on the site of Kutztownin 1755, there were evidently some, per-haps a number at the time Kutz laid outhis purchase. Why Kutz waited for twenty-four years before laying out this town can-not now be told. Perhaps the develop- Dietrich, and six in-lots and eleven out-lots to Henry Schweier, the the same time seventy-fonr acresand one hundred perches (of the one hund-red and thirty acres bought by George Kutzfrom Jacob Wentz, June 16, 1755) passedinto the hands of George Kutz, Jr. Short-ly before 1800 the ownership of the townpassed to Peter Kohler. Early Kutztown consisted of two parts,Kutztown proper, and Freetown. Freetownextended west from Baldys Lane, or Baldystreet, as it is now called. Freetown wasan addition laid out after the laving outof the older part of the town. The lotsin this adcUtion were sold outright havins:. Old Landmark, formerly the Henry Peterson Home, West Whiteoak St. ment of the settlement on the Saucony wassuch that he deemed it wise to lay plans forthe change of a straggling hamlet to anorderly town. Flowever that may be, helaid out the town in February 1779. Theplan embraced one hundred and eight in-lots and one hundred and five out-lots, allof which were subject to a perpetual groundrent. The lots located on Front, or Mainstreet, were fifty feet wide and one hundredand sixty feet deep, subject to a rental offive shillings and three pence. On the [in-]lots on White Oak and other streets of theoriginal town the rental was two shillingsand 9 pence, and on the out-lots five shill-ings. In 1785, as has been stated, seven in-lots and ten out-lots were sold to Adam no ground rents attached. From this cir-cumstance die name was derived—Free-town. Freetown see
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