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Norristown is a municipality with home rule status and the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Located along the Schuylkill River, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from Philadelphia, Norristown had a population of 35,748 as of the 2020 census. It is the fourth-most populous municipality in the county and second-most populous ...
Norris purchased the land directly from William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, as a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the growing city center of Philadelphia. When a collection of communities decided to form Montgomery County in 1784, Norristown was named the county seat of government. It was not until March 31, 1812 that Norristown was ...
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The Town of Norris had only twenty houses by 1790, but the residents had big ambitions. In 1812, they asked Gov. Simon Snyder(1759-1819) for permission to incorporate as a borough–the first in Montgomery County. Snyder agreed, and the Town of Norris, expanded to 250 acres, became the Borough of Norristown on March 31, 1812, governed by a burgess an...
With so many ways to get to Norristown and so many jobs beckoning in the mills and factories, the borough’s population grew steadily. The census of 1820 found Norristown with a population of 827, but by 1850, it was up to 6,026, a sevenfold increase. By 1900, Norristown’s population had climbed to 22,265. It was a heady time for the town, which pro...
Norristown was never more prosperous and proud than in 1912 when it celebrated its centennial as a borough with a grand parade and pageant, but in the next century the borough’s fortunes declined. Cracks began to develop in the borough’s industrial base over the first few decades of the twentieth century when the textile mills that had been a major...
Oct 26, 2020 · The first Norristown Herald and Free Press was published don Feb. 1, 1837. On March 1, 1864, Morgan E. Wills and Robert Iredell became proprietors of the Norristown Herald and Free Press.
Norristown, Pennsylvania. Norristown is a borough in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] It is along the Schuylkill River about six miles from Philadelphia. Norristown's population was 35,748 at the 2020 U.S. Census. [2]
Norristown Business Development, 266 East Main Street - Suite 3, ☏ +1 610 277-2641. Pennsylvania's 300-year-old historic, multicultural community and center of commerce has reinvented itself. Walk the same streets that Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Daniel Webster did. Shop, dine, browse, discover. edit.
May 29, 2022 · NORRISTOWN — Though not a native of the municipality, Michael Tolle wrote the book – literally – on Norristown’s rise and fall. As we celebrate the 210th birthday of Norristown, it is ...
