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Bryn Mawr College (/ ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r / brin-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbɾɨ̞nˈmau̯ɾ]) [8] is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of historically women's colleges in the United States.
Bryn Mawr is named after an estate near Dolgellau in Wales that belonged to Rowland Ellis, a Welsh Quaker who emigrated in 1686 to Pennsylvania to escape religious persecution. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Until the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad 's Main Line in 1869, the town, located in the old Welsh Tract , was known as Humphreysville, named for ...
Bryn Mawr station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It is located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at Morris and Bryn Mawr Avenues. [ 5 ] It is served by most Paoli/Thorndale Line trains with the exception of a few "limited" and express trains.
Bryn Mawr station is a SEPTA Metro rapid transit station in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. [2] It serves the M and is located at Glenbrook Avenue and County Line Road, although SEPTA gives the location as being at Bryn Mawr Avenue and Brook Street. All trains stop at Bryn Mawr South. The station lies near Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Harriton House, originally known as Bryn Mawr, is an historic house which is located on the Philadelphia Main Line, and was most famously the residence of Founding Father Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Bryn Mawr station (CTA), a Chicago 'L' station in Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Bryn Mawr station (Norristown High Speed Line), a SEPTA station in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. Bryn Mawr station (SEPTA Regional Rail), a SEPTA station in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Bryn Mawr station (Metra), a Metra station in South Shore, Chicago, Illinois
Bryn Mawr South station is a SEPTA Metro rapid transit station in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. [2] It serves the M and is located at Glenbrook Avenue and County Line Road, although SEPTA gives the location as being at Bryn Mawr Avenue and Brook Street. All trains stop at Bryn Mawr South. The station lies near Bryn Mawr Hospital.
The Quaker Consortium is an arrangement among three liberal arts colleges, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and Swarthmore College, and one research university, the University of Pennsylvania, all located in the greater Philadelphia area. The arrangement allows for their students to enroll in courses at the other schools of the Consortium.