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Darby is home to the fifth-oldest all-volunteer Fire Department and the Darby Free Library, one of the oldest libraries in the United States, founded in 1743. The Darby Friends Burial Ground is the oldest Cemetery in Pennsylvania in continuous use, opened in 1682.
The Darby Meeting or Darby Friends Meeting House is located in Darby, Pennsylvania. The first recorded minutes of the meeting are dated July 2, 1684, not long after William Penn landed in nearby Chester to establish the colony of Pennsylvania. The first Friends meeting house in Darby was a log cabin built in 1687. [3]
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 ...
Darby Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 9,264 as of the 2010 census. The population was 9,264 as of the 2010 census. It is home to both residential areas and expansive industrial districts.
The Lower Swedish Cabin is a historic Swedish-style log cabin which is located on Creek Road in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, along Darby Creek.The cabin may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States and is one of the last cabins built by the Swedish settlers that remains intact.
Sellers Hall, located in Upper Darby and completed in 1684, is one of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania [1] and is the ancestral home of the Sellers family of scientists and engineers. [2] Samuel Sellers (1655-1732) arrived in Philadelphia in 1682, the first year of Penn's colony.
Upper Darby Township, often shortened to Upper Darby, is a home rule township [3] in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, the township had a total population of 85,681, making it the state's sixth-most populated municipality after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, and Erie. [4]
Darby Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia counties, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) long. [ 2 ] The watershed of the creek has an area of 77.2 square miles (200 km 2 ).