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Notable non-residential buildings include the Oxford Hall, Octoraro Hotel, Oxford Station (Borough Hall), Dickey Building, Masonic Building, Fulton Bank Building (1925), Gibson's Store (c. 1832), Orthodox Friends Meeting House, Methodist Church (1885), United Presbyterian Church (1893), and the Oxford Grain & Hay Company granary (1880).
The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, [1] who purchased the land from William Penn's sons in 1735. The primary buildings at this site were constructed by the Hess family in the 18th century, including a 1740s log farmhouse, a 1778 stone farmhouse, and a 1769 oil mill.
The family sailed from England in the Lyon, part of William Penn's Fleet for religious freedom. Oxford Meeting records are on file in Quaker records. They abruptly end in 1696 when almost the entire congregation converted to Anglican. Quaker history notes it is the only known instance of this happening.
The family played a major role in re-routing the new Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad (P&BC) through Oxford. Track was laid in the 1850s. The railroad reached Oxford in 1860 and later connected to Philadelphia and Baltimore. [4] By the time of the Civil War, Oxford was a bustling community. The business district on Third Street was ...
Location of Chester County in Pennsylvania Map of Chester County (clickable) This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [ a ] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [ 3 ] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Northampton County , Pennsylvania , United States .
Forty Fort Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house at River Street and Wyoming Avenue in the Old Forty Fort Cemetery in Forty Fort, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.It was built in 1806–08 in a New England meeting house style with white clapboard siding and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.