McBride’s book an excellent, well-crafted, compelling read. Remember: While McBride utilizes Pottstown — and particularly the neighborhood known in the past as Chicken Hill — for the book’s back drop, his work is 100% fiction.
The general meeting of the Pottstown Historical Society will be held on November 17,2025, at 7pm at our building at 568 High Street. The presentation will be by Robert Lusch on the origins and history behind the Pennsylvania Dutch language. We would like to see people at our meeting that can speak some of this … Read more
Larry “Slim” Farman grew up in Norristown and later moved to the Pottstown area. He hardened his muscles as a stone cutter at Gil Quarries, East Norriton.
The community consisted of at least 100 families, not the handful McBride used in his book. To serve the significantly larger community, a new synagogue was built at High and Warren Streets and consecrated in 1926.
Meeting Monday, March 20th 2017 at 7 PM It is very timely that our March program will be “The History of Political Parties in the US” presented by Patricia Norred Derr, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at Kutztown University and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pottstown Historical Society. Patti is a … Read more
November Meeting Monday, September 21th 2016 at 7 PM The November meeting will be at the Manatawny Still Works, located on the Circle of Progress near the airport in Pottstown. We need a good showing for this program, so please come out and join us to learn how this local company distils spirits.\nThe cost is … Read more
September Meeting Monday, September 19th 2016 at 7 PM Our speaker for the evening will be Jack Beaver. Jack taught school in Pottstown for 30 years. He holds a BS in Education from Wagner College, in Staten Island, NY and an MS in Education from Penn State. For the last 18 years, he has been … Read more
Pottstownians were becoming very interested in this new sporting adventure, bicycling. In 1884 a local wheelmen group was formed.
As practiced throughout the North — including Pottstown — widespread, but unwritten, discriminatory Jim Crow practices existed in housing, employment, educational opportunities, social and civic organizations, bowling leagues, and even access to graveyard space.
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