![]() ![]() In 1689, Edward Lane constructed a house that has been enlarged and remodeled into the Perkiomen Bridge Hotel, a major landmark in the region. The first family of settlers was the Lane family. This tract also included the present townships of Upper Providence and Lower Providence and parts of Perkiomen and Worcester. Penn designated the area which is now the Borough as the Gilbert tract. The area's earliest settlers arrived in the late 17th century and many of their buildings are still standing, including the Perkiomen Bridge Hotel which has existed in that spot since 1689 The historic bridge, an iconic entrance to the Borough located right next to the Hotel, was completed in 1799, allowing the town to flourish With the addition of the railroad and a small liberal arts college that would one day become Ursinus College, Collegeville Borough began to take shape as the small college town it is today Over the decades the railroad disappeared but development in and around the Borough continued and accelerated Today the Borough has a population of just over 5,000 residents and supports 2,246 jobs located within the municipality Collegeville has emerged as a dense, walkable community built around a traditional main street and bolstered by Ursinus College, its largest employer.Ĭollegeville, like all of Pennsylvania, was originally part of a grant made to William Penn by Charles II of England in 1682. Collegeville Borough sits close to the geographic center of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and is one of the most historic of Philadelphia's suburbs. ![]()
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