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Pennsburg is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population was 3,889 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Upper Perkiomen School District. It is also part of the strip of small towns that run together along Route 29: Red Hill, Pennsburg, and East Greenville. The towns are collectively referred to as Upper Perk.
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania is divided into 1,546 townships, located in 66 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. For listings of townships in individual counties, see the category Townships in Pennsylvania by county
As of 2022, there were 39.82 miles (64.08 km) of public roads in Pennsbury Township, of which 11.81 miles (19.01 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 28.01 miles (45.08 km) were maintained by the township.
The manor of Pennsbury, a summer home for Penn and his family, was established along the Delaware River 25 miles north of Philadelphia, between the river's west bank and what was later named Van Sciver Lake. Construction was begun soon after his arrival in the colony in 1682 and completed around 1686.
At the 2000 census there were 14,592 people, 5,421 households, and 4,103 families living in the township. The population density was 1,144.2 inhabitants per square mile (441.8/km 2).
It is split between the Green Lane Zip Code of 18054 and the Pennsburg zip code of 18073. [1] The immediate area was known in the 1920s as the " Poconos of Philadelphia " and as "The Fineland," and it is from this latter name that the US post office had put it on the map as Finland in 1886.
Whitemarsh Hall (Edward T. Stotesbury mansion), (built 1916–21, demolished 1980). William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, reserved Springfield Township as one of his family's original manors in the 1680s.