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12 unusual facts about Norristown


Arthur Percy Noyes

He stayed until 1936 when he moved to the state mental hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he remained for 19 years until he retired.

Bill Nuttall

Bill Nuttall (born March 10, 1948 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is the owner of Golden Viking Sports, licensee for the soccer brand Diadora.

Buddy Bailey

Welby Sheldon "Buddy" Bailey (born March 28, 1957 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an American professional baseball manager.

Ephraim Leister Acker

He was appointed postmaster of Norristown, Pennsylvania in March 1860 by President James Buchanan and after serving eleven months was removed by President Abraham Lincoln.

James Milnor

He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1794 and commenced practice in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

Although born in Philadelphia, the Culbreath family moved to Norristown, Pennsylvania shortly after her birth.

Ron Joseph

WIFI, at that time, was owned by Mel Gollub and was licensed to Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Ryann Krais

She is a 2008 graduate of Methacton High School in Norristown, Pennsylvania where she was a nine-time outdoor state champion and a five-time indoor state champion.

Samuel McClintock Hamill

He was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania on July 6, 1812 and graduated from Jefferson College in 1834.

SEPTA Main Line

Later a new alignment was built to Norristown, leaving the old route from North Philadelphia to Germantown as a branch; this is now the Manayunk/Norristown Line.

William Henry Houghton

After a series of revivalistic meetings at a Baptist church in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1918, he accepted their offer of the pastorate and stayed until he took a new pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1920.

William Shainline Middleton

Middleton was born in January 1890 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, to Daniel and Anne Middleton, the second of their four children.


Agnes Irwin School

In addition, the school is located within a mile of the Villanova stations for the SEPTA Regional Rail Paoli/Thorndale Line and the Norristown High Speed Line.

George Dering Wolff

George Dering Wolff (b. at Martinsburg, West Virginia, 25 August 1822; d. at Norristown, Pennsylvania, 29 January 1894) was an American Protestant minister, later after a conversion an editor of Catholic publications.

Norristown Transportation Center

It opened in 1989 to replace the older Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100) terminus one block away at Main and Swede Streets, and integrated the former Reading Company DeKalb Street Norristown railroad station (built 1933) into its structure.

Additionally, Norristown Transportation Center was formerly an important transfer point between electric and Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDCs) service to points north, such as Valley Forge, Phoenixville, Pottstown, Reading and Pottsville.

Pennsylvania Route 52

PA 52 ran concurrent with US 122 between West Chester and New Hope by way of Paoli, King of Prussia, Norristown, Montgomeryville, Chalfont, Doylestown, and Buckingham.

Vorkuta Gulag

Two other illegally detained Americans were Private William Marchuk, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, kidnapped in East Berlin in 1949 and expatriate, John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, Michigan who was arrested by the Red Army in Dresden, Germany in 1945.

Wingohocking Creek

The southerly branch, Wingohocking Creek proper, followed the path taken today by SEPTA's Chestnut Hill East rail line (built by the Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad in 1833 and extended by the successor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in the 1850s) between Sedgwick and Wister stations.