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Edgewood, also known as the Charles Sharpless House, is a historic home located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1846, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, serpentine structure in the Victorian Gothic style. After 1873, it was remodeled and a four-story tower added. [2]
Birmingham Township was the site of the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. Over 18,000 men were engaged. Until then, it was the largest land battle on the North American continent. Birmingham Friends Meeting, founded in 1690, is the location of a common grave of both American and British casualties.
In its earliest years, the school benefited from the ease of transportation afforded by the passage of the Pennsylvania railroad through Birmingham. [citation needed] Currently, the school still operates as Grier School, a boarding school for girls. The East Coast earthquake on August 23, 2011 caused a rockslide along Route 453 in Birmingham. [5]
Birmingham, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (now South Side Pittsburgh) Birmingham, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; or occasionally to Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, formerly known as Birmingham Township and before 1790 part of the Chester County township.
Birmingham was a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on the South Side of what is now Pittsburgh. Incorporated in 1826 from St. Clair Township, [1] the borough comprised a section of the South Side Flats between what is now South 6th and South 17th Streets. Birmingham was laid out in 1811 by Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, son-in-law of John Ormsby.
The 156th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Chester County and includes the following areas: [1] Birmingham Township; East Goshen Township; Thornbury Township; West Chester; West Goshen Township (PART, District North) Westtown Township
build Twelfth Street Meeting House, 1813–1814. Green Street Meeting House Home of the North Monthly Meeting until c. 1828: 1815-1816 [21] c.1970 "The dimensions of the building were forty-seven by seventy-three feet." [29] Home of the Monthly Meeting for the Northern District until the 1827-28 Hicksite/Orthodox schism. [30] Discontinued as a ...
Green Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania: Green Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania Green Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania