Tag: 19th century

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....

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....

The previous post in the 1850s series discussed how farming formed the backbone of Marple Township’s economy during the 1850s, much as it had for generations. What were farms growing though, and how do we know?...

What do we know of the people who lived in Marple Township during the 1850s?...

By Sam Pickard This is Part One of an ongoing series on Marple Township in the 1850s. Part One focuses on the Landscape of Marple in the 1850s. This is the first article in “Marple in the 1850s”—a series of posts looking at Marple Township in the 1850s. While...