Lansdale, Pennsylvania "Lansdale"
Lansdale.
Lansdale Map of Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Location of Lansdale in Montgomery County Lansdale, Pennsylvania is positioned in Pennsylvania Lansdale, Pennsylvania Location of Lansdale in Pennsylvania Lansdale is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
Early in the 20th century, its industries encompassed agricultural implement works, a canning factory, foundries, brickyards, a silk mill, and manufacturers of cigars, stoves, shirts, rope, iron drain pipe, and glue. In 1900, 2,754 citizens lived here; in 1910, 3,551; and in 1940, 9,316 citizens were inhabitants of Lansdale.
Lansdale is the center of the North Penn Valley, a region which includes the encircling townships and boroughs.
Lansdale Municipal building The earliest known pioneer in Lansdale were members of the Jenkins family.
The assembly of the North Pennsylvania Railroad amid the 1850s contributed to rapid expansion and expansion in Lansdale.
By 1872, Lansdale Borough was officially incorporated and titled after Phillip Lansdale Fox, chief surveyor of the North Penn Railroad.
The Jenkins Homestead and Lansdale Silk Hosiery Compy-Interstate Hosiery Mills, Inc.
Lansdale is home to a Kugel ball, which is a dark grey granite sphere supported by a very thin film of water pumped from beneath its base. The Kugel Ball is positioned in Railroad Plaza, adjoining to the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line train station in downtown Lansdale.
An annual 5k race is held in June, accordingly titled the Kugel Ball race, which starts and ends at the actual Kugel Ball in Railroad Plaza.
As of the 2010 census, the borough was 75.9% White, 5.9% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 13.3% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian, and 2.7% were two or more competitions.
In the borough the populace was spread out, with 22.2% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 33.4% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Lansdale has a town/city manager form of government with a mayor and a nine-member borough council.
K-6 enhance elementary schools in Lansdale include Gwynedd Square Elementary, Knapp Elementary, Oak Park Elementary, Inglewood Elementary, Walton Farm Elementary, and York Avenue Elementary.
The region enhance high school is North Penn High School in Towamencin Township.
Lansdale region private high schools include Lansdale Catholic High School and Christopher Dock Mennonite High School.
Lansdale is served by the daily online journal The Alternative Press of North Penn, owned and directed by Treacy Media Holdings, LLC, and edited by Towamencin Township native Tony Di Domizio, and the daily print journal The Reporter, owned by the Journal Register Company and having a circulation of 16,364 throughout Lansdale, Hatfield, Souderton and Harleysville, The Lansdale station on SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown Line The chief east-west street in Lansdale is Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 63), which runs northwest-southeast.
Pennsylvania Route 363 begins at PA 63 on the edge of Lansdale and heads southwest on Valley Forge Road.
The Lansdale interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension (Interstate 476) is positioned to the west of the borough in Towamencin Township and joins to PA 63. Lansdale is served by SEPTA Regional Rail's Lansdale/Doylestown Line via Lansdale station in downtown, the Pennbrook station in the southern part of the borough, and the 9th Street station in the northern part of the borough, with service to Center City Philadelphia and Doylestown along with intermediate points. Three SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes serve Lansdale: the Route 94 joins the southern part of Lansdale with the Montgomery Mall and Chestnut Hill, the Route 96 joins Lansdale with the Norristown Transportation Center in Norristown, and the Route 132 joins the borough with the Montgomery Mall and Telford. Lansdale is the command posts of the Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad, a short-line freight barns .
The Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad operates the Lansdale Yard in the borough and provides freight rail service out of Lansdale to a several points in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia on SEPTA-owned lines. The barns interchanges with CSX Transportation in Lansdale. Cult writer Russell Hoban, author of Riddley Walker and the Frances the Badger children's books, was born and interval up in Lansdale.
Ralph James Wickel (1921-2001), Lansdale High School alum served in WWII, awarded tennis scholarship at Temple University, competed in county-wide and nationwide tennis tournaments.
An episode of the Fox tv series Fringe, which aired on September 24, 2009, was set in Lansdale.
The scenes that took place in Lansdale were filmed in British Columbia, and the town was depicted as a non-urban area consisting primarily of corn fields and not as the densely populated suburban town that it actually is. In the 1981 novel A Natural Weapon by Garry Mitchelmore, Lansdale is one of two suburbs (the other being Cache, Louisiana) that has its natural gas supply poisoned by terrorists.
According to the book "Weird Pennsylvania," Lansdale was also once home to one of the world's three "H Trees," which are believed to mark portals to Hell.
Kugel Ball FAQ Retrieved on 18 September 2007 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
The Reporter, Lansdale - Racial Diversity "Racial Diversity" Accessed February 22, 2010.
"overview of Lansdale, Pennsylvania" (Map).
Stanley, Chris "TV's Lansdale " Archived 2009-09-28 at the Wayback Machine., The Reporter Blogs, September 24, 2009.
Lansdale travel guide from Wikivoyage Borough of Lansdale Lansdale Municipalities and communities of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
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