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Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Pottstown was laid out in 1752–53 and named Pottsgrove in honor of its founder, John Potts. The old name was abandoned at the time of the incorporation as a borough in 1815. In 1888, the limits of the borough were considerably extended.
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Notable non-residential buildings are the Italianate-style commercial buildings on High Street, 1725 Roller Mills, the Reading Railroad station (1928), the Doehler-Jarvis castings plant, the Light Foundry building (1880), the Ecker Building (c. 1910), the Weitzenkorn Building, the Security Trust Building (1888), the Elks Home (1896), the ...
As of 2018 there were 55.80 miles (89.80 km) of public roads in Lower Pottsgrove Township, of which 19.46 miles (31.32 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 36.34 miles (58.48 km) were maintained by the township. [14]
Pottstown School District is among the oldest in the state of Pennsylvania. The first documentation of a school in Pottstown dates back to the 1700s according to George Wausnock, chairman of the Alumni Outreach Committee. [2] The first school board was formed in 1839 and the first high school class graduation was in 1881.
The station was built in 1928 as a train station for the Reading Railroad and was active long enough to be served by SEPTA diesel service trains until 1981. [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984, as the Reading Railroad Pottstown Station, and is located in the Old Pottstown Historic District, close to the Schuylkill River Trail.
Owen J. Roberts High School is a high school in the Owen J. Roberts School District. [2] It is located in Bucktown, [citation needed] in South Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, [3] in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
PA 29 has an interchange with US 422 southwest of Collegeville; US 422 heads east toward King of Prussia and Philadelphia and west toward Pottstown and Reading. SEPTA operates bus Route 93 along Collegeville's Main Street and Ridge Pike, running southeast to the Norristown Transportation Center in Norristown and northwest to Pottstown. [24]