Discover 6 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Pottstown (United States). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Pottsgrove Manor, The Carousel at Pottstown, and Welkinweir. Also, be sure to include Pottstown in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Pottstown (Pennsylvania).
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Pottsgrove Manor
Museum in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Pottsgrove Manor, also known as the John Potts House, is a historic home located at Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1752 by John Potts, and is a large two-story, rectangular, sandstone and fieldstone building in the Georgian style. It has a five-bay front facade, gable roof, and a center hall plan. The service wing was added 1790–1805, and the rebuilt east wing was built 1941–1952 during a restoration. It is open to the public as an 18th-century historic house museum owned by Montgomery County.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is located in the Old Pottstown Historic District.[1]
Address: 100 W King St, 19464-6318 Pottstown
The Carousel at Pottstown
Theme park, Amusement ride, Amusement park
Address: 30 W King St, 19464-6308 Pottstown
Welkinweir
Arboretum in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Welkinweir is a 197-acre nonprofit arboretum, garden, mansion, and conservation area located at 1368 Prizer Road, East Nantmeal Township, Pennsylvania, United States, near Pottstown. It is part of the Hopewell Big Woods. It is open to the public daily without charge.
Welkinweir was the home of Everett and Grace Rodebaugh, founding members of the conservation-minded Green Valleys Association, who bought the site in the 1930s and spent decades improving it. Their house was built in 1940, building upon a much smaller house, built in two sections c. 1750 and c. 1830. The architect Fridtjof Tobiessen designed the 1940 mansion. The property was placed into a conservation easement in 1976, donated to the association in 1997, and is now its headquarters and educational center. In 2001, the estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Its arboretum includes cherry, dogwood, dwarf evergreens, franklinia, magnolia, Japanese maple, swamp and sugar maple, and sweetgum, as well as azaleas and rhododendrons.[2]
Address: 1368 Prizer Rd, 19465-8711 Pottstown
Pottstown
Old Pottstown Historic District is a national historic district located in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 956 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Pottstown. The district includes a variety of residential buildings including workers' home and residences of prominent and wealthy citizens in a variety of architectural styles including Late Victorian, Gothic Revival, and Federal. This includes the separately listed Pottsgrove Mansion. Notable non-residential buildings include the Italianate style commercial buildings on High Street, 1725 Roller Mills, Reading Railroad station, Doehler-Jarvis castings plant, Light Foundry building, Ecker Building, Weitzenkorn Building, Security Trust Building, Elks Home, Pottstown Library, Pottstown Borough Hall, Masonic Temple, Christ Episcopal Church, First Methodist Church, and St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church. Also in the district is the Searles Memorial Methodist Church designed by architect Joseph Miller Huston.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, with a boundary increase in 1991.[3]
Pottstown Roller Mill
Historical place in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Pottstown Roller Mill is a historic roller mill located on the Schuylkill River at Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The original mill building was built in 1725. It was constructed of fieldstone, two stories tall, and three bays wide and two bays deep. The building was altered in 1849. In 1856, two brick stories were added to the original fieldstone mill. A five-bay, brick addition was subsequently added and doubled the size of the 1856 mill. The property includes the contributing dam and mill race.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The mill provided flour to George Washington's Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
It is "the roller mill of Jesse Ives.. that provided shelter for escaping slaves" in the Underground Railroad.
The Mill faced extensive flooding due to Hurricane Agnes in 1972 but served the community continuously despite major damages. As of this time, the Mill no longer sold flour, but "a post Revolutionary War era water wheel turned by a race stream siphoned from the Manatawny still provide most of the power to operate the mill."
The Pottstown Roller Mills, Inc. survives today at 625 Industrial Highway, less than a mile from the original historic building.[4]
The Hill School
Co-education in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The Hill School is a coeducational preparatory boarding school located on a 200-acre campus in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 35 mi northwest of Philadelphia. The Hill is part of the Ten Schools Admissions Organization.
The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools.[5]
Address: 860 Beech Street, Pottstown