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The Darby Creek Trail is a mile-long trail that follows the creek in Haverford Township and is anchored by Merry Place, a park and nature area at its southern end. [25] A multi-use trail along Darby Creek has been proposed. The trail would run from Garrett Road in Upper Darby Township to Pine Street in the borough of Darby. [15]
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 area is generally referred to as Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania due to sharing a common ZIP code (19010) with the community; however, Bryn Mawr's census-designated place (CDP) is located wholly within Lower Merion Township. [4] [5] SR 2005 intersects side street Brennan Drive before crossing Ithan Creek shortly upstream from its mouth at Darby ...
Cobbs Creek is an 11.8-mile-long (19.0 km) [1] tributary of Darby Creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It forms an approximate border between Montgomery County and Delaware County. After Cobbs Creek passes underneath Township Line Road (U.S. Route 1), it forms the border between Philadelphia County and
Ithan Creek (also known as Ithan Run [1]) is a tributary of Darby Creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 4.2 miles (6.8 km) long and flows through Radnor Township and Haverford Township. [2] The creek's watershed has an area of 7.39 square miles (19.1 km 2) and is highly developed.
The two creeks that mark part of the township boundaries, Cobbs Creek and Darby Creek provided mill seats for the early settlers. "As early as the year 1688 a small grist-mill, known as the "Haverford Mill," was built on Cobb's Creek, near where that stream is crossed by the road leading past Haverford Meetinghouse. [6]
Today Newtown Township has a land area of 10.11 square miles (26.2 km 2), and a population of 15,002 individuals. Some farms and large estates remain, but for the most part, the township was developed into a suburban community with old stone homes and structures dotting the landscape to serve as reminders of days gone by.
Roughly bounded by Creek and Bullock Rds., the Beverly Farm, Big Bend, and Hill Girt Farms estates, and Brandywine Creek 39°51′05″N 75°35′12″W / 39.851389°N 75.586667°W / 39.851389; -75.586667 ( Twin Bridges Rural Historic