Cold Point Historic District

Cold Point is a rural village and farming district in Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, lying east of the Plymouth Meeting area along Butler Pike. Its houses are mainly two-and-a-half-story rubble stone dwellings, stuccoed, with gabled roofs, many built between about 1745 and 1878. Limestone deposits supported lime burning from the early 1700s, and by the 1840s the Corson family had built a lime business that became one of the oldest continuously operated lime companies in the country. The village also holds the Cold Point Baptist Church, its burial ground on Cold Point Hill, and the Cold Point School, built in 1817 on land given by Thomas Egbert. Free black landowners lived in the village, and the district is important for its surviving 19th-century fabric and rural character. On May 20, 1778, a British force under General Grant marched past Cold Point Hill during the Revolutionary War.