Reading Terminal Market: One of America's Oldest Public Markets

Reading Terminal Market opened on February 22, 1893, and it has operated ever since, one of America's oldest and largest public markets. Amish and Mennonite merchants from Lancaster County joined it in the 1980s, and Bassetts Ice Cream, founded in 1861 and often called the oldest ice cream company in America, has sold ice cream here for well over a century.