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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Pottstown Landing Historic District

The Pottstown Landing Historic District is a national historic district that is located in North Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

History and architectural features

This district includes seventy-six contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the linear village of Pottstown Landing. The buildings date from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and primarily include residential buildings. Also included are a number of contributing outbuildings, a school, and a church.

The oldest buildings are associated with the Joseph Rieff stone farmhouse (c. 1780). The village developed along the banks of the Schuylkill River and increased after the opening of the Schuylkill Canal.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.