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Haverford Township is a home rule municipality township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] Haverford is named after the town of Haverfordwest in Wales. It is a commuting suburb located due west of Philadelphia and is officially known as the Township of Haverford .
Oakmont Station in Haverford Township, 1959. Eagle Road cuts across Oakmont from West to East. The road that would become Eagle Road was initially laid around 1696 for the Old Haverford Friends Meetinghouse, built 1688. [4] Oakmont is also the site of Saint Denis Church, founded in 1825 for mill workers in Kellyville in the Karakung Creek ...
The Haverford Township Historical Society maintains a survey of historic resources notable to the township. Haverford Township c. 1902. Historic roads. The Haverford Road is one of the earliest roads laid out by civil ordinance. Dates for its layout and completion vary from 1687 to 1703. Darby Road, known earlier as Coopertown Road, dates from ...
Location of Delaware County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Nitre Hall is open to the public May through October, in December for special events, and by appointment for a nominal admission charge, according to the Haverford Township Historical Society. The building's main use is for school and group field trips. The historical society puts on a "day in the life" show for the township's fifth graders.
The last family to occupy the mansion did so from 1913 until 1974, when the estate was purchased by Haverford Township in 1974 under the Haverford Historical Society. [8] The mansion is now maintained as a museum and community center. Regular tours are available from April to October and during the December holidays.
Pont Reading is a historic, American home that is located in the Ardmore section of Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was the residence of shipbuilder and architect, Joshua Humphreys who lived there his entire life. Pont Reading was named after his family's homestead, Reading Pont in Wales.
Havertown Superfund is a 13-acre [1] polluted groundwater site in Havertown, Pennsylvania contaminated by the dumping of industrial waste by National Wood Preservers from 1947 to 1991. The state first became aware of the pollution in 1962 and initiated legal action against the owners in 1973 to force them to cleanup the site.