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Encyclopedia Britannica



POTTSTOWN

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 213 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POTTSTOWN , a
borough
  of Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., on the Schuylkill river, 40 M. N.W. of Philadelphia. Pop. (1910
census
 ) 15,599. Pottstown is served by the
Pennsylvania
  and the Philadelphia &
Reading
  railways, and by electric lines to neighbouring towns. In the
borough
  is the Hill School (1851), an excellent secondary school for boys. There is
trade
  with the surrounding country, which is devoted to farming and dairying and abounds in
iron
  ore and
limestone
 , but the
principal
  industry is the manufacture of
iron
  and steel, the first commercially important iron furnaces in Pennsylvania having been established near the site of Pottstown in 17161718. In 190 the factory products were valued at $8,144,723 (10.7% more than in 1900). Three miles from Pottstown, in an amusement park, are the " ringing rocks," which cover about an acre, and have varying tones when struck, so that tunes may be played upon them. Pottstown was settled and laid out in 1752 and was named Pottsgrove in honour of its founder, John Potts (17101768); in 1815 it was incorporated as a borough and in 1829 the present name was adopted.


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