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==History== [[File:WomelsdorfParade.jpg|thumb|left|Womelsdorf Parade 1962.]] [[File:WomelsdorfParade2.jpg|thumb|left|Womelsdorf parade 1962, [[Betsy Ross]] float.]] The area had been occupied by Native American peoples before European colonization. German immigrant John Womelsdorf founded the community in 1762. It was originally named Middletown, as it was halfway between the cities of Lebanon and Reading, but roughly 50 years later the name was changed to Womelsdorf in honor of its founder.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gyAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0eEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2022%2C4542468 | title=Womelsdorf to celebrate 100th anniversary event | work=Reading Eagle | date=Jun 28, 1933 | access-date=3 November 2015 | pages=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=713;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=689}}</ref> [[Conrad Weiser]], another German immigrant, settled here with his family as a young adult. Due to his importance as an interpreter and diplomat to the Iroquois and other Native American nations in the colonial period, the [[Conrad Weiser Homestead]] has been preserved as a [[Pennsylvania]] state historic site. It has materials to interpret his life and important aspects of 18th-century colonial [[Pennsylvania]]. The [[Womelsdorf Historic District]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1982.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
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