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Newtown Square city overview
Newtown Square is a city in USA shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forNewtown Square, Philadelphia Main Line, Newtown Square planning base 3, Newtown Square planning base 4
RegionUSAUSA
Time zoneAmerica/New_Yorklocal time
Founded1684historical origin
City history
252) and Goshen Roads Paper Mill House (1770, 1845) – mill workers' home and general store, restored in the 1980s and now used as museum and headquarters for the Newtown Square Historical Society.
The first mention of the township was in 1684, when Thomas Norbury and John Humphrey were appointed collectors of the "Levie for the cort house and Prison for ye Township of Newtowne".
As such, in 1687, an east–west road was laid out (Goshen Road) so the Friends could attend either Goshen or the Haverford Friends Meeting.
By 1696, these friends had become numerous enough to hold their own meeting in Newtown and continued to meet in a private home until the completion of the Newtown Square Friends Meetinghouse in 1711.
David's Church (1715) – the oldest non-Quaker church in Delaware County, founded by Welsh Anglicans; burial place of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, located on S.
By 1889, the reorganized Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company had completed the track to West Chester.
Before this time, railroad lines had been proposed, but due to a series of reorganizations and competition between companies for rights of way, as of 1892 no track had been laid.
In 1894, however, a mule-drawn service was initiated by the Philadelphia and Delaware County Railroad, with steam dummies used to help out on the hills.
Electrification was completed the following year and the trolley was open from Newtown to Fernwood in 1895.
These Welsh "Friends" (Quakers) needed a road to facilitate their journey to meeting, the only established road at the time being Newtown Street Road, which ran north and south.
Taverns and inns were also opened to accommodate local patrons as well as drovers taking their livestock to the markets in Philadelphia.
In the Darby Creek area a number of tenement houses were built as well as a general store to service the needs of the mill workers.
At this time, the railroad was laying track out of Philadelphia in all directions with services to Chester, Media, West Chester, and Radnor, but not Newtown Square.
Although construction slackened during the depression, another boom was experienced after World War II.
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Newtown Square
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Philadelphia Main Line
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Newtown Square planning base 3
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Newtown Square planning base 4
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Newtown Square planning base 5
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Rental cars
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