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.
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.
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.
Genealogy is not an exact science. Always there remains some mystery around people, as they lived their own lives. And inevitably, there are the stories that were suppressed in the past and do come to light.
Several representatives of the Pottstown Historical Society Board of Directors were guests at the Pottstown Rotary Club 100th Anniversary Dinner on Saturday, February 10, 2018.
A native Pottstownian, Larry Cohen has published a family history and portrait of Pottstown history, entitled Chicken Hill Chronicle. He is a member of the Pottstown Historical Society. Near the top of the list of unique aspects of Pottstown’s past are the three seasons from 1968-1970 when the Pottstown Firebirds ruled small town professional football.
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