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Montgomery Township Historical Society collection of Montgomery Township records on property development
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Held at: Montgomery Township Historical Society [Contact Us]P.O. Box 678, Montgomeryville, PA, 18936
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Montgomery Township Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
"Montgomery Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population is 24,790 and the housing total is 9,467. [The] township is the location of the Montgomery Mall, a small regional shopping mall serving the Route 309 corridor of the Philadelphia suburbs. Much of Montgomery Township's development is suburban in character, with newer tract houses and strip shopping centers. Montgomery Township is in the North Penn school district."
Bibliography:
Montgomery Township. "About the Township." Accessed August 22, 2012. http://www.montgomerytwp.org/department/division.php?fDD=1-95.
This collection primarily consists of maps submitted to the Montgomery Township Board of Supervisors with applications for real estate development, circa 1988-2012. It also includes zoning board hearings records, 1960s-1980s; lists of permits, 1994-1999; and other miscellaneous records relating to property development in Montgomery Township. Some of the records and maps reflect proposed developments that were not executed.
Gifts of Montgomery Township Board of Supervisors.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of a pilot project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Montgomery Township Historical Society directly for more information.
Organization
Subject
Place
- Publisher
- Montgomery Township Historical Society
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Access Restrictions
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Contact Montgomery Township Historical Society for information about accessing this collection.