Guided Tours of Pottsgrove Manor August 17, 2008

The Historic Sites offer free guided tours. The manor house exemplifies the restrained elegance of early Georgian architecture popular with wealthy English gentry during the mid-18th century. Built in 1752 for John Potts, ironmaster and founder of Pottstown, the mansion was situated on a 1,000 acre plantation, which by 1762 included the town of "Pottsgrove." The mansion has been restored to recreate the lifestyle and times of the Potts family. Today there are educational demonstrations in the "Hands-on-Room."