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Collegeville is home to Ursinus College and several local businesses. The hardiness zone is 7a bordering upon 6b.Ĭollegeville and the surrounding area are rapidly growing. It has a hot-summer humid continental climate ( Dfa) and average monthly temperatures range from 31.0 ☏ in January to 75.7 ☏ in July. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2), of which 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) (3.70%) is water. The Perkiomen Bridge and Perkiomen Bridge Hotel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Collegeville was incorporated as borough in 1896. Thus the name 'Collegeville' precedes the establishment of Ursinus College and it is actually named after the other 4-year liberal arts college (Pennsylvania Female College) which closed in 1880. Ursinus College was founded a year later in 1869. The rail company avoided any troubles by naming it 'Collegeville' (the station was actually closer to the Pennsylvania Female College than either Freeland School or Perkiomen Bridge). The local citizens had acquired notoriety when they had burned down the toll booth on the Perkiomen Bridge and thrown the gate into the river. When the trains first arrived in the area in 1868, there was a debate about naming of the station (Perkiomen Bridge vs Freeland). Ten years later, in 1861, the post office was moved and renamed Freeland. In 1851, Abraham Hunsicker established the Pennsylvania Female College near present-day Glenwood Avenue.

Hunsicker built the 'Freeland Seminary of Perkiomen Bridge.' Village around the school became known as Freeland. In 1832, the first school for primary and secondary students was established and it was later renamed Freeland Public School in 1844. When the first post office in this area was established in 1847, it was called Perkiomen Bridge.

In 1799, Perkiomen Bridge was constructed using funds raised from a special lottery approved by the Pennsylvania Legislature. The area which is present day Collegeville was part of the original William Penn purchase of 'All the land lying on the Pahkehoma' in 1684.

The population was 5,089 at the 2010 census. It is the location of Ursinus College which opened in 1869. Collegeville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Philadelphia on Perkiomen Creek.

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