

If you're thinking that Columbia Station looks like a train station, that's because it once was. Columbia Station is located on the site of the former Phoenixville Station of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, which was founded in 1833 to haul coal from Reading to Philadelphia.

Phun Pfacts about Phoenixville:
- Mike Piazza is a graduate of Phoenixville Area High School, where he was named league MVP in baseball.

- The Fountain Inn in Phoenixville was the farthest point inland reached by the British in the Northern Colonies during the Revolutionary War.
- Neal Olkewicz, a linebacker for the Washington Redskins who owns two Super Bowl rings, was born in Phoenixville on January 30, 1957.