Fritztown 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
South Heidelberg and
Spring Township, Berks County,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, United States. It is located along Fritztown Road to the west of
U.S. Route 222 and approximately two miles northeast of the Berks and
Lancaster County line and 3.4 miles southwest of
Sinking Spring. The
Cacoosing Creek begins here and drains northeastward into the
Tulpehocken Creek, a tributary of the
Schuylkill River
The Schuylkill River ( , ) is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map(). accessed April 1, 2011. from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pottsville ...
. The area is experiencing population growth, due to new sub-divisions being built around the community. It is served by the Sinking Spring branch of the Reading post office, with the
zip code of 19608.
Fritztown info
pennsylvania.hometownlocator.com. Accessed April 18, 2022.
On January 1, 1907, William G. Leininger of The Railroad Sock
The Railroad Sock, Inc. is an American sock manufacturer, established in 1901. Its logo depicts an illustration of a locomotive. As of 2022, the socks continue to be manufactured in the United States.
Until the late 1990s, the company manufactur ...
a hosiery mill in Fritztown on 5 Old Wernersville Road,
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Unincorporated communities in Berks County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania