Most of Eagleville was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1974. Below: maps from 1894 on and the census since 1990.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eagleville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1894Norristown sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Eagleville.
The story so far
Eagleville, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eagleville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Eagleville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,800 at the 2010 census. It is within Lower Providence Township.
Its first post office opened in 1853. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 4,800 to 4,647 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Eagleville in 1923
Passages that mention Eagleville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania1923 · page 127Read the page →
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The Providence Presbyterian Church, near the village of Eagleville, was an offshoot of the Norriton church, where services were held as early as 1678, as is claimed by some. The deed for this land is dated 1704, and shows it was purchased from the ancestors of David Rittenhouse. The first church built in Providence was in 1730, although the time of its organization is unknown to the writer. It was made up largely of Scotch-Irish. The Norriton and Providence churches united in 1758.
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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania1923 · page 330Read the page →
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Eagleville was a good sized village in the early eighties. It is on the Ridge turnpike, at the top of Skippack Hill, near the center of the township. Town meetings were held there many years. Hotel, stores, post office, a carriage shop, all sprung up around the large building erected by Silas Rittenhouse. It still remains a hamlet of the county. Providence Square, another collection of houses and shops, sprung from a small beginning in 1855, when Thomas Miller erected a large shop for the making of wagons and carriages on the Germantown pike. It lives
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
