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Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Philadelphia at the junction of French Creek and the Schuylkill River. It is in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. According to a 2022 estimate, the population was 19,354. [4]
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Phoenixville evolved from a village in the late 1600s called Manavon which had a population of about 400 people. At that time the area had a large population of Native Americans, the Lenape people, who farmed, hunted, and fished in the Schuylkill River. The Lenape were in the Iroquois covenant chain, the group that met William Penn when he ...
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The immigrants would make Phoenixville their home, establishing churches, social clubs, stores, and communities, some of which still exist today. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was born in Phoenixville on April 9, 1843, and served as Pennsylvania’s Governor from 1903 to 1907.
We have an extensive collection of old photographs of Phoenix Iron Co., old buildings, streets, homes, schools, and people of Phoenixville, as well as yearbooks from Phoenixville High School, historical artifacts, a Phoenix Steel Column, and over 300 pieces of Etruscan Majolica that was made in Phoenixville.
S. Edward C. Shannon. John Smiley (baseball) John Stauffer (politician) Erick Swenson.
The Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area's (HSPA) archival collection consists of an impressive amount of materials that document the entwined stories of Phoenixville and Phoenix Iron Company . In 1813, about a century after the first Europeans began to settle the Phoenixville area, Lewis Wernwag (1769-1843), a pioneer bridge builder in ...
