The West Chester trolley, which served Marple township for more than half a century, had a large impact on the township’s early suburban development and has endured as a memory in Broomall’s collective consciousness more than half a century after it was replaced by the Route 104 bus....

The Pennsylvania Railroad's Newtown Square Branch passed through Marple from 1895 until 1963 and for many of those years it served a small flag stop called Foxcroft Station. Today, little is left of the railroad, but if you look closely, you can find remnants....

Two weeks ago the house at 27/29 South Sproul Road in Broomall was demolished. With the loss of the Hipple House, silently but imposingly keeping watch over that section of Sproul Road, one more physical link to our township’s past and the people who shaped it has been...

According to local legend, a building from the 1876 Centennial Exposition ended up as a house in Marple Township. Was this a real relic of America’s 100th birthday or just a tall tale?...

This final installment on Marple in the 1850s relates to the final resting place for the township’s residents: cemeteries....

Today, Marple Township is home to 17 houses of worship representing multiple faith traditions. During the 1850s, there were only two churches in the whole township....

By Sam Pickard This is Part Six of an ongoing series on Marple Township in the 1850s. Part Five focuses on Manufacturing in Marple during the 1850s. Part Seven focuses on Churches in Marple during the 1850s. Pennsylvania was relatively late among northeastern states to establish public schools, only...

Marple Township’s industry in the 1850s was largely the development of these traditional craft/cottage industries. Yet, even for Delaware County, Marple was never an industrial powerhouse....

There were only a handful of businesses in Marple Township during the 1850s, and most were stores, taverns, blacksmiths, or wheelwrights clustered in the township's two villages....