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Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Philadelphia at the junction of French Creek and the Schuylkill River. It is in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. According to a 2021 estimate, the population was 19,029. As noted by Forbes, Phoenixville is a former beaten-down mill town considering a recent downtown revitalization seek that led to 10 craft breweries, a distillery, and winery tasting rooms.

Originally called Manavon, Phoenixville was settled in 1732 and incorporated as a borough in 1849. In its industrial heyday into the future in the twentieth century, it was an important manufacturing center and the site of good iron and steel mills such as the Phoenix Iron Works, boiler works, silk mill, underwear and hosiery factories, a come to an agreement factory, and the famous (and now highly collectible) Etruscan majolica pottery. Like many American towns and cities, Phoenixville owes its growth to its waterways. It is not only upon the expansive Schuylkill River, a historic thoroughfare to Native Americans and yet to be settlers, it is as a consequence bisected by the fast-flowing French Creek, which was quickly harnessed for water power.

Much of this chronicles was qualified by the instigation of the Phoenixville Historic District, the largest National Register of Historic Places site in Chester County. The Black Rock Bridge, Gay Street School, and Schuylkill Navigation Canal, Oakes Reach Section are moreover listed on the National Register of Historic Places.