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1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: old-book passages.
The Spring House post office opened in 1829, the earliest record of the town by name.
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Spring House is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,978 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1829. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 3,804 to 3,978 (+5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Spring House, cut from the printed page as they were published.
down the county line, to Hatboro'. As these were laid out from Governor Keith's settlement, the former was long known as the " Governor's road." The road from the present Spring House to Horsham Meeting-house was laid out and confirmed in 1723. The Horsham road extends through the centre of the township; was laid out from near the meeting-house up into Montgomery township in the spring of 1735.
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Fort Washington is situated near the Upper Dublin line, at the intersection of the Spring House turnpike and North Pennsylvania Railroad. It contains two stores, hotel, post-office, railroad-station, coal and lumber-yard and about eighteen houses. The postoffice was removed here from Whitemarsh village in 1873 and A. H. Cam appointed postmaster,- who still retains the position . Its title was changed from White-
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creek, is Stone Hill, probably the highest land in the township. It is 240 feet above the adjacent stream. At one time in the eighties, copper was mined in this township, but it proved profitless to the owners of the mine. The Spring House and Sumnytown turnpike crosses this township, while the Perkiomen railroad about one mile above Schwenksville, hugging the east bank for three miles, in which distance it has stations named Hendricks, Salford Station, Branchville, and Mechanicsville.
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The Spring House post office opened in 1829, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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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 →
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