Conshohocken

Conshohocken is a borough on the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in suburban Philadelphia, and had 9,261 residents at the 2020 census. Settled about 1820 as Matson's Ford, it was laid out as a town in 1830 and took its present name, drawn from a hat among three choices, from a Lenape-derived word usually translated as pleasant valley. It was incorporated as a borough in 1850. For much of its history it was a mill town and manufacturing centre with steel, iron, textile and tire works, and it has since become a riverfront commercial and residential district. A sharp bend in the river gives the nearby Schuylkill Expressway its well known Conshohocken curve. The borough covers about one square mile, and sits across the river from West Conshohocken. It suffered severe flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in September 2021.