Talk:Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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I cleaned it up a little bit, but a couple of comments out there are unsubstantiated.  I hope someone can help clean up the culture section a bit.  I'll be working to try and expand some of the data, but hopefully I can get a hand.Montco 01:32, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
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message: Hello, figured I would chime in. This is a proposed edit I think might be beneficial. I would expand on the statement describing the physical nature of the county's areas. My statement would sound more like this:
"Montgomery County is a very diverse in how it incorporates a wide variety of different types of urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods. The western portions of the county tend to feature rural areas such as Harleysville, New Hanover, and Hatfield that surround small towns such as East Greenville, Lansdale, and Pottstown. The central portion features the city of Norristown, the county seat, as well as major suburban residential developments and business park centers such as King of Prussia, Plymouth Meeting, Blue Bell, the large borough of Conshohocken, and the borough of Ambler. The eastern portion is defined primarily by the PA-611 corridor which features densely populated older townships such as Cheltenham, Abington, Upper Moreland, and Horsham Townships, and large concentrations of twin homes and some row homes in dense towns and boroughs such as Rockledge, Jenkintown, Willow Grove, and Hatboro. The southernmost tip of the county also features the wealthy suburban Lower Merion Township.
Perhaps this could be incorporated into the Geography or Community section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.11.221.246 (talk) 22:35, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
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message: There's no article yet for Huntingdon Valley, and I'd like to create at least a stub for it in the near future. Once I do that, I'd like to insert this place into the Communities and Census-Designated Places section of this entry. Does a community have to be a census-designated place (CDP) in order to be there? And if so, is there a way I can find out if Huntingdon Valley is such a place? Would Huntingdon Valley have had an entry already if it were a CDP?
While it could be argued that a lot of what can be said is already covered in the Lower Moreland and Bethayres entries, Huntingdon Valley covers more that just these places. Five townships - Abington, Lower Moreland, Lower Southampton, Upper Moreland, Upper Southampton - in two different counties - Bucks and Montgomery - constitute the area known as Huntingdon Valley. Huntingdon Valley is situated so close to two Montgomery County boroughs - Bryn Athyn and Rockledge - and the farthest northeastern part of the city and county of Philadelphia that sometimes the boundaries of these blur. 
In fact, while Bethayres does have an entry, albeit a stub, it had not been listed in this section, so I went ahead and added it. Please feel free to revert it if it doesn't qualify as a CDP or other criteria. RSLitman 02:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Huntingdon Valley

message: As a "life-long Montgomery County resident" (20 years and 5 days in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the remaining time in Montgomery County, Maryland), I've never cared for the abbreviation of "Montco". While it (and similar local county abbreviations such as Chesco, Burlco, and Delco) may do fine as an abbreviation in headlines in the Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers, I question its appropriateness in a serious document like this one is supposed to be. RSLitman 19:43, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Name "Montco"

message: Why "Montgomery County, Pennsylvania"? Why not "County of Montgomery, Pennsylvania"? Small change but shouldn't we use the most correct, not just the vernacular?
Awg1010 (talk) 23:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think almost all of the counties in the USA are "X County, Y" where Y is the state name. The rationale is probably that that is how most people would look for them. I also note that County of Montgomery, Pennsylvania is a redirect here. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 03:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Although not exactly definitive, the County's own official web site (newer than these Talk posts) uses "Montgomery County, Pennsylvania", except for the occasional MontCo babble. ChrisJBenson (talk) 09:34, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Name

message: The administrative county of Montgomery was created in 1784, but the area had a community named Montgomery for almost a century before that. Originally deeded by William Penn in 1682, the Welsh [Quaker] settlement of Montgomery had only a handful of residents in 1707. It was incorporated and officially designated as Montgomery Township by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly in 1714. This information can be found at the Montgomery Township Historical Society web site here and is in turn from "An Erudite Little Township", a pamphlet published in 1979 by Montgomery historian James A Williams.
In light of the timeline information above, I respectfully suggest that this Pennsylvania community's 300 hundred year association with the name Montgomery is unlikely to be derived from a soldier who was born in Ireland 24 years after Montgomery's incorporation. Furthermore, one might consider that even today, at least sixteen places within Montgomery County have Welsh names, with a similar Welsh prevalence in the surrounding counties. I remain with the obvious premise that the County of Montgomery in Pennsylvania is named for the County of Montgomery in Wales (albeit inherited through the earlier naming of Montgomery Township).
I don't believe this article should include speculation associating the county name with Richard Montgomery (born 1738), and I don't agree that Reliable Sources can confirm that view. ChrisJBenson (talk) 09:23, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
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