Moselem Springs is an

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Berks County, Pennsylvania Berks County (Pennsylvania German: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading. The Schuylkill River, a tributary of the Delaware Rive ...

, United States. It is located at the

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junction of

Pennsylvania Route 662 Pennsylvania Route 662 (PA 662) is a state highway located in Berks County in eastern Pennsylvania. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 422 (US 422) in Douglassville and its northern terminus is at PA 61 in Shoemakersville. The route is a t ...

(Moselem Springs Road) and U.S. Highway 222 in Richmond Township. Buildings in the area include the Richmond Township Municipal Building,

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's Health Center at Moselem Springs in a historic inn constructed circa 1852, and the former Richmond Elementary School. The place name comes from the ''Unami-Len'api'' term ''Masch'il'am'ek'', which means "trout." In ''Minsi-Len'api'' "trout" is ''Mesch'ila'meek''.Zeisberger, David. ''Indian Dictionary: English, German, Iroquois—The Onondaga and Algonquin—The Delaware''. Harvard University Press, 1887. , p. 205. “The Delaware” that Zeisberger translated was Minsi-Len’api.

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* Unincorporated communities in Berks County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania {{BerksCountyPA-geo-stub