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Broomall, looking east on West Chester Pike. This crossroads community was renamed for the post office established to honor John Martin Broomall, [4] a 19th-century U.S. congressman, Electoral College member (at Ulysses S. Grant's 1872 presidential election), and Chester Gas Company president from Upper Chichester Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Marple Township, Pennsylvania. Marple Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It contains the census designated place of Broomall. The population was estimated at 23,743 as of 2015. ZIP codes include mainly 19008, as well as 19064 and 19063. The township is run by Marple Township board of commissioners.
Glenwood Memorial Gardens. Glenwood Memorial Gardens is a 70-acre lawn cemetery in Broomall, Pennsylvania. It was originally established in 1849 as a rural cemetery on 20 acres in North Philadelphia as Glenwood Cemetery. Over 700 Union army and Confederate States Army soldiers who died in local hospitals during the American Civil War were ...
Thomas Massey House. The 1696 Thomas Massey House is one of the oldest English Quaker homes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a 2-story brick and stone house, originally constructed by the English, Quaker settler, Thomas Massey in 1696. It is located on Lawrence Road near Sproul Road in Broomall, Pennsylvania.
John M. Broomall was born in Upper Chichester Township, Pennsylvania [1] to John and Sarah (Martin) Broomall. [2] He was a twin to his sister Elizabeth Martin Broomall. [3] He attended Samuel Smith's Quaker boarding school in Wilmington, Delaware and after graduation began studying law under John Bouvier, a prominent lawyer in Philadelphia.
The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available. There are 56 historical markers located in Delaware County. [1] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
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Delaware County, colloquially referred to as Delco, [ 2 ] is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With a population of 576,830 as of the 2020 census, [ 3 ] it is the fifth-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the third-smallest in area. The county was created on September 26, 1789, from part of Chester County and named for the ...