Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Pottsgrove was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970. Below: old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pottsgrove’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pottsgrove yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Pottsgrove is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,469 at the 2010 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 3,469 in 2010, 3,471 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Pottsgrove, cut from the printed page as they were published.
In 178-5, the year following the creation of the county and before the township of Pottsgrove was in part cut off from it, this township returned, among other taxable property, four hotels, four grist-mills, five saw-mills, one pai)cr-niill, one tannery and one forge.
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By the act of April 11, 1807, it was ordered that the Sixth Election District should be composed of the township of Pottsgrove, lately erected from a part of New Hanover, and a part of Douglas, aiid should hold their elections at the house of William Lesher, Pottstown, and the electors of the remainder of the township of Douglas and New Hanover at the house of Henry Kreps, New Hanover.
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A century and more ago in Pottstown runs thus : Post office was established near the end of 1793 and Jacob Barr was appointed postmaster. This was the first post office established in Montgomery county. It was at first known as Pottsgrove post office, but in 1829 changed to Pottstown. It became a presidential office March 11, 1865. Pennsburg — This borough is one mile to the east from the borough of East Greenville, a station on the old Perkiomen railroad and the Green Lane and Goshenhoppen turnpike. It is twenty-three miles from Read-
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people 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.
