Editing Reamstown, Pennsylvania (section)

== History ==
The town was named after Eberhard Ream (Johann Eberhardt Riehm 1687–1779), whose son, Tobias Ream, founded it in the 1740s. It was originally known as "Zohar."<ref>{{cite web |title=Pioneer Settler / Founder of Reamstown |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=39274 |website=THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE |access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref>

During the [[American Revolution]], Reamstown served as one of a number of field hospitals for the wounded following the [[Battle of Brandywine]] on September 11, 1777. A dozen or more of these troops died here and are buried in unmarked graves in the Salem Evangelical Cemetery. The cemetery is also home to a large boulder that once served as a [[mortar and pestle]] by the native people who lived on nearby Ephrata Mountain to the south. It was transported to Reamstown by Pierce Lesher, and today a plaque on the stone details both the Native American and military history.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}