Morgantown, Pennsylvania Morgantown, Pennsylvania Morgantown is positioned in Pennsylvania Morgantown - Morgantown Morgantown is a census-designated place in Caernarvon Township in extreme southern Berks County, Pennsylvania, as well as partially in Caernarvon Township in Lancaster County.
Morgantown was titled after Colonel Jacob Morgan, who laid out the town around 1770.
Morgantown was, until the arrival of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a mostly agriculture-based settlement.
In the 1970s the Morgantown Expressway Interstate 176 was assembled to interstate highway standards, providing a link between Morgantown and PA 23 and Reading and US 422.
Also, although not actually in Morgantown but part of its neighboring town, Elverson, Twin Valley High School overlooks parts of Morgantown and is where most of the town's resident's kids attend school.
Municipalities and communities of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States Municipalities and communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States Stub icon This Berks County, Pennsylvania state locale article is a stub.
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