Sassamansville (SAS-a-minz-vil) is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in northwestern
Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
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,
Pennsylvania
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, United States on Hoffmansville Road, approximately 1 1/2 miles northwest of
Route 663.
It is served by the
Boyertown Area School District
The Boyertown Area School District is a large public school district which covers portions of Berks and Montgomery Counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. When the Boyertown Area School District was formed in 1953 it was one of the largest in t ...
.
History
The community is home to
The Bauman Family fruit butter factory.
Geography
This community is located mainly in
New Hanover Township, but is also partly in
Douglass Township. It is drained by the
Swamp Creek into the
Perkiomen Creek
Perkiomen Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania.Gertler ...
. The Sassamansville telephone exchange uses
area code 610
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Year 610 ( DCX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 610th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 610th year of the 1st millennium, the 10th year of the 7th century, and ...
.
While the village has its own box post office with the
zip code of 19472, portions of Sassamansville are served by the Barto, Gilbertsville, and Perkiomenville post offices with zip codes of 19504, 19525, and 18074, respectively.
Gallery
File:Sassamansville Fire Co No 1.JPG, Sassamansville Fire Co. No. 1
File:Sassamansville, MontCo PA 01.JPG, Hoffmansville Rd. in Sassamansville
File:St Pauls Lutheran Church, Sassamansville, MontCo PA.JPG, St. Paul's Lutheran Church
References
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Unincorporated communities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania