Editing Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous people]] who first inhabited this area were the Lenni [[Lenape]] (meaning the "original people"). The tribe in this immediate area was the Minsi or Wolf tribe. Inhabitants in the Sinking Spring area reportedly called the main spring the sunken spring. White settlers later called it the "sinking spring."

Penn Avenue is the main thoroughfare of Sinking Spring.  There is a stone monument in the 3800 block of Penn Avenue. The borough, which has a large number of underground streams that carve out limestone and form sinkholes, was incorporated on March 13, 1913.