Phoenixville
Phoenixville is a borough of 17,000 people in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Philadelphia Metro Area. Phoenixville used to be a beaten-down mill town, but its downtown has been revitalized by 10 craft breweries and a distillery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,800 residents
- Description: borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Manovon”, “Phenixville”, “Phœnixville”, “Phoenixville, PA”, and “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Postal code: 19460
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colonial Theatre and Gay Street School.
Colonial Theatre
Movie theater
Photo: Squelle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Colonial Theatre is located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, at 227 Bridge Street. Built in 1903, the "Colonial Opera House" became a preeminent venue for movies, traveling shows and live entertainment throughout the 20th century.
Gay Street School
School building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Gay Street School is a historic school building located in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It has two sections. The older section, the west wing, was built in 1874, and is a two-story, brick structure.
Black Rock Dam
Dam
Photo: J Clear, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Black Rock Dam is a low head dam in the Schuylkill River. Originally constructed as a stone filled, timber crib dam in the early 19th century by the Schuylkill Navigation Company, the dam was one of dozens built to create a slack water pools for the Schuylkill Navigation System.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mont Clare and Port Providence.
Mont Clare
Village
Photo: J Clear, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mont Clare is a village in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The village is located on the left bank of the Schuylkill River opposite Phoenixville and Chester County.
Port Providence
Hamlet
Port Providence is an unincorporated village along the Schuylkill River in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Originally known as Jacobs, then Lumberville, the village is located on one of the two remaining watered stretches of the Schuylkill Canal.
Ironsides
Hamlet
Ironsides is a populated place located within the township of Schuylkill in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has an estimated elevation of 118 feet above sea level.
Phoenixville
- Categories: borough of Pennsylvania and locality
- Location: Borough of Phoenixville, Chester County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.1304° or 40° 7′ 49″ northLongitude
-75.5149° or 75° 30′ 54″ westPopulation
15,800Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PXVOpen location code
87G64FJP+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 157569054OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Phoenixville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فينيكسفيل”
- Basque: “Phoenixville”
- Bulgarian: “Финиксвил”
- Cebuano: “Phoenixville”
- Chechen: “Финиксвиль”
- Chinese: “Phoenixville”
- Chinese: “菲尼克斯維爾”
- Chinese: “菲尼克斯维尔”
- Czech: “Phoenixville”
- Dagbani: “Phoenixville”
- Danish: “Phoenixville”
- Dutch: “Phoenixville”
- Esperanto: “Phoenixville”
- French: “Phoenixville”
- German: “Phoenixville”
- Gilaki: “فينيکسویل (پنسيلوانيا)”
- Gilaki: “فينيکسویل”
- Haitian: “Phoenixville, Pennsilvani”
- Haitian: “Phoenixville”
- Hebrew: “פיניקסוויל”
- Italian: “Phoenixville”
- Japanese: “フェニックスヴィル”
- Japanese: “フェニックスビル (ペンシルベニア州)”
- Ladin: “Phoenixville”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Phoenixville”
- Persian: “فنیکسویل، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “فنیکسویل”
- Polish: “Phoenixville”
- Portuguese: “Phoenixville”
- Russian: “Финиксвилл”
- Serbian: “Финиксвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Phoenixville”
- Slovenian: “Phoenixville”
- Spanish: “Phoenixville (Pensilvania)”
- Spanish: “Phoenixville”
- Swedish: “Phoenixville”
- Tatar: “Финиксвиль”
- Ukrainian: “Фініксвіль”
- Uzbek: “Phoenixville”
- Uzbek: “Пҳоенихвилле”
- Vietnamese: “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Vietnamese: “Phoenixville”
- Volapük: “Phoenixville”
- Welsh: “Phoenixville, Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Phoenixville”
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