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The image above shows the intersection of E. High St. and N. Pleasantview Road in Sanatoga.\u00a0 Shuhart’s Store is on the left with the Sanatoga Chapel in the background.\u00a0 Note the trolley tracks along the right side of the picture.\u00a0 It was from this intersection that the village of Sanatoga and the surrounding area grew into what it is today.\u00a0 At this point in time, the township was mostly populated with farmsteads, some of them dating back to the late 1700’s or early 1800’s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Home<\/a>
HOME OF THE SAYLOR \u00a0FAMILY<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PLEASANTVIEW FARM<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were also several hotels in the area.\u00a0 The Pleasantview Hotel, situated on the northwest corner of this intersection dated back to the 1700’s.\u00a0 For a time it was a<\/span> barroom and restaurant, later an ice cream parlor, and finally became the home of the Sanatoga Post Office.\u00a0 Then there was the Crooked Hill Tavern, located at E. High St. and S. Sanatoga Road, which later became the Sanatoga Inn.\u00a0 Today it is known as Cutillo’s Restaurant.\u00a0 It was first opened about 1770.\u00a0 There was also the Long View Hotel, a resort hotel, located on the side of the hill near Sanatoga Park.\u00a0 It<\/span> burned to the ground in the early 1900’s.\u00a0 The loss of the beautiful hotel inspired local residents to form the Sanatoga Fire Co. in 1908.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At one time, there were five one-room school houses in operation.\u00a0 All of them are still standing.\u00a0 In 1931, the school system was consolidated into one school, the Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School on N. Pleasantview Road.<\/span><\/div>\n
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NORTON FARM<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was January 15,1890, when the village known as Crooked Hill officially took the name of Sanatoga.\u00a0 According to the Lower Pottsgrove history book “Crossroads of History”<\/a><\/span> written by Muriel E. Lichtenwalner, the name is said to come from the Indian name given to Sanatoga Creek by the Lenni Lenape Indians who first populated this area.\u00a0 The<\/span> Indian word for stream was “hanne”; sinne-hanne” meant stony stream, and “leoga ” meant swift current.\u00a0 So Senetoga meant “swift stony stream”.\u00a0 There are various stories to account for the original Crooked Hill name.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the early days, there were not many houses (other than farm houses) to be seen.\u00a0 Gradually, with the onset of “modern” improvements in transportation, the population grew.\u00a0 The trolley era, then the buses, and finally family automobiles, along with the canal and the railroads, all contributed to a more mobile population that found its way to our area and helped build Lower Pottsgrove Township to the way it is today.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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