Congo, Pennsylvania

Congo is a village in Douglass Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Congo is located at the intersection of Hoffmansville Road and Congo Road, northeast of Boyertown. It is drained by the Swamp Creek into the Perkiomen Creek and uses the Barto ZIP Code of 19504.

Congo, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Union Jack's Olde Congo Hotel.
Congo
Coordinates: 40°21′03″N 75°35′02″W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Montgomery
Township	Douglass
Elevation	427 ft (130 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Code	19504
Area code(s)	610 and 484
GNIS feature ID	1172326[1]

Name origin

The village was named Cedarville until the 1880s, when the US Post Office decided to rename it due to the existence of at least three other Pennsylvania post offices with "cedar" in their names. The Congo Basin was in the news at the time due to conflicting European claims and measures to settle them. While the Congo post office closed around 1925, the name has remained with the community ever since.[2]

References

"Congo". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
Douglass Township Bicentennial Historical Committee. "A History of Douglass Township: 1700 to 1976." 1976, p. 32.

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