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POTTSTOWN , a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Montgomery See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Schuylkill See also:river, 40 M. N.W. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (1910 See also:census) 15,599. Pottstown is served by the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & See also:Reading See also:railways, and by electric lines to neighbouring towns. In the borough is the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill School (1851), an excellent secondary school for boys. There is See also:trade with the surrounding See also:country, which is devoted to farming and dairying and abounds in See also:iron ore and See also:limestone, but the See also:principal See also:industry is the manufacture of iron and See also:steel, the first commercially important iron furnaces in Pennsylvania having been established near the site of Pottstown in 1716–1718. In 190 the factory products were valued at $8,144,723 (10.7% more than in 1900). Three See also:miles from Pottstown, in an amusement See also:park, are the " ringing rocks," which See also:cover about an See also: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 See also:honour of its founder, See also:John Potts (1710–1768); in 1815 it was incorporated as a borough and in 1829 the See also:present name was adopted.
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