Borough Of Downingtown

Admin this Page

Share on Facebook

address:4-10 West Lancaster Avenue  Downingtown, PA 19335 phone:610-269-0344 fax:610-269-1580 website:Borough of Downingtown

Events Calendar

Wednesday, December 2nd

Borough Council Meeting

when:7:00pm, Downingtown, PA
venue:Borough of Downingtown

Monday, December 7th

Shade Tree Commission Meeting

when:3:00pm, Downingtown, PA
venue:Borough of Downingtown

Water Authority Meeting

when:7:30pm, Downingtown, PA
venue:Borough of Downingtown

Thursday, December 10th

Downingtown Area Recreation Consortium Meeting

when:7:30pm, Downingtown, PA
venue:Borough of Downingtown

Tuesday, December 15th

Planning Commission Meeting

when:7:30pm, Downingtown, PA
venue:Borough of Downingtown

Downingtown’s origins are of a small village located midway between Philadelphia and Lancaster. The village was first known as Milltown since it was the location of the last mills on the edge of the unsettled western frontier. Thomas Moore erected ‘a water corn mill’ in 1716 and Roger Hunt established a grist mill in 1739. The deteriorated structure of the Roger Hunt mill and mill race still survives in Downingtown to this day, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. In 1761, John Downing opened a tavern on the east side of the Brandywine Creek which was first known as the Downing Mill Inn; not long thereafter, his father, Thomas, developed an industrial complex of mills on the Lancaster Road in Milltown.

           

           

Real Estate Agents: Be the Local Expert for Downingtown