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Shillington, PA - History
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Welcome to the Shillington Home page. The Shillington Home page provides as much information as possible on Shillington. Knowing Shillington’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Shillington’s Home page, you will also find Shillington’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Shillington has a population of 5306. 47.6% of Shillington’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.4 are female. 53.7% of Shillington is married and 76% own their own home. The Average Home price is $151,537, and the average rent is $968. Household median income in Shillington is $68,333, and the individual median income is $40,750. Shillington’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.1%), Hispanic(23%), Multiple(10.5%), Other(5.1%), Asian(1.6%), Black(0.7%).
Shillington began in 1860 as part of Cumru Township, when local landowner and borough namesake Samuel Shilling sold some of his lots for residences. The area had an inn, originally built in 1762, called the Three Mile House because it was 3 miles (5 km) from Reading on the Lancaster Pike. The inn was a popular stop for farmers going to the city's markets, and later it sat near a horse racing track built by Aaron Einstein in 1868. A post office opened in Shillington in 1884.
On August 18, 1908, the Quarter Session Court officially incorporated the borough of Shillington as a separate municipality from Cumru Township with a population of 450. Later that year Shillington elected its first official, Adam Rollman, as chief burgess. Borough council meetings were held in various locations over the years until the present town hall was completed in 1932 by order of town election commissioner Steven Myers.Much of the borough's present land was occupied by Angelica Farm which would be established as an almshouse, or poorhouse, in 1824.
The alms house was replaced by Bern Township's Berks Heim in 1952. The buildings of the Governor Mifflin School District now occupy most of land that was once part of the almshouse. Today, the most notable visible remnant of the poorhouse is a stone wall that is within short walking distance down the road from John Updike's old home.
Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, is set in a fictional building based on Shillington's poorhouse. Many of Updike's earliest stories were set in the fictional version of Shillington named Olinger, and some of them were collected in the volume Olinger Stories. Angelica Farm was also the historical home of Thomas Mifflin, the first governor of Pennsylvania and 11th President of the Continental Congress.
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