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The area that is now the Fairhill neighborhood was at one time home to the Isaac Norris family's Fair Hill estate. Norris was an early merchant and later mayor of Philadelphia. It is also home to the Fair Hill Burial Ground, a cemetery that Quakers established in 1703. [4] George Fox obtained the land for the cemetery from William Penn.
Fair Hill Burial Ground is a historic cemetery in the Fairhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Founded by the Religious Society of Friends in 1703, it fell into disuse until the 1840s when it was revived by the Hicksite Quaker community of Philadelphia, which played an important role in the abolition and early women's rights movements.
Fair Hill is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. [1] Fair Hill is located at the intersection of Maryland routes 213 and 273 , north of Elkton . It is home to the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area, a 5,613 acre protected area formerly part of the land holdings of William duPont, Jr. [ 2 ]
Maryland Route 273 (MD 273) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.Known for most of its length as Telegraph Road, the highway runs 16.58 miles (26.68 km) from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) near Harrisville east to the Delaware state line near Appleton, where the highway continues east as Delaware Route 273 (DE 273).
Snow Hill Site: Snow Hill Site: April 27, 1984 : Address Restricted: Port Deposit: 45: South Chesapeake City Historic District: South Chesapeake City Historic District: July 15, 1974 : East of Maryland Route 213, south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Fairless Hills is located at (40.178909, -74.853044 [6]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2), of which 0.52% is water.
Portions of the Mason–Dixon line run through White Clay Creek State Park and the park preserves several historic resources associated with the line. The starting point of the survey, called the "post mark'd west," is located on Bryan's Field located within the park.
The bridge crosses Big Elk Creek and is surrounded by the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area, the former land holdings of William du Pont Jr. The crossing was originally called Strahorn's Mill Bridge [2] after Strahorn's Mill - one of the properties purchased by William du Pont Jr. in 1927 to create his Foxcatcher Farm estate, which was named after his thoroughbred racing stable.