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Germantown Pike (also known as Germantown Avenue for a portion of its length) is a historic road in Pennsylvania that opened in 1687, [1] running from Philadelphia northwest to Collegeville. The road is particularly notable for the "imposing mansions" that existed in the Germantown neighborhood in Philadelphia.
The bridge was built in 1792 and repaired in 1874. It has eight spans, is 33-foot (10 m) wide, with an overall length of 202-foot (62 m). The bridge carries Germantown Pike across Skippack Creek. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [1]
4 E. Germantown Pike c.1787 1871 – J. R. Ellis [5] 6 E. Germantown Pike Jonathon Jones House [8] 8 E. Germantown Pike 1854 1871 – R. Jones [5] George Hitner Residence [9] 12 E. Germantown Pike 1871 – Mark Jones [5] George Hitner was issued a license to operate an inn in 1778. [10] Hitner Barn "The Barn at 14 East" 14 E. Germantown Pike c.1714
The Cross County Trail is a multi-use trail located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.As of July 2023, eight of the nineteen proposed segments of the trail are complete. The trail starts at its junction with the Schuylkill River Trail and runs north to one of its current termini at Germantown Pike for a length of 3.24 miles (5.21 km).
Stephen Rush House, located at 3851 Germantown Pike, is a two-story fieldstone structure that served as a center of food and drink to travelers along Germantown Pike. This Inn was built about 1803 on land purchased from St. James Church. Evansburg Inn, located at 3833 Germantown Pike, is a large, two-story plastered fieldstone inn with end ...
On Germantown Pike, bounded by Cross Key Road, Grange Avenue, Mill Road, and Ridge Pike 40°10′51″N 75°25′20″W / 40.180833°N 75.422222°W / 40.180833; -75.422222 ( Evansburg Historic
Turnpikes were created from Germantown to the east end of the bridge in 1804, and from the western end of the bridge to Reading about 1816, but the trip across the bridge remained toll-free until 1867. In that year a toll booth was constructed on the western end of the bridge, and outraged residents burned it down before any tolls could be ...
The majority of the route from Pottstown to Philadelphia followed historic Ridge Pike and Germantown Pike (as of 2024, the overpass of Ridge Pike over the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276) is still labeled with a designation of "U.S. 422"). In 1932, the western terminus was extended from Reading to Market Street in downtown Harrisburg.