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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.
The Old Pottstown Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, with a boundary increase in 1991.
Collegeville is located at According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2), of which 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) (3.70%) is water.
The High Street Historic District encompasses one hundred and twenty-four contributing buildings and one contributing structure in an upper- and middle-level residential section of Pottstown. This district includes late-19th and early-20th century mansions and stylish homes that were built between 1860 and 1941.
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The township was named for the hometown of early settler William Evans, whose family arrived in the area from Limerick, Ireland in 1698. The township is mentioned in Philadelphia court records in the 1710s, but formal proceedings recording the township's boundaries were not entered until March Sessions 1726.
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Located roughly in the center of Audubon, Audubon Elementary school was decommissioned from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. During that interim period, it housed the town library and a YMCA. In the mid-1990s, it underwent extensive renovation and was reopened to coincide with a large housing boom in the area.