Foxcroft Station & the Newtown Square Branch
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....
Marple in the 1850s: Part Five — Manufacturing
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....
Marple in the 1850s: Part Four — Business
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....
Obituary for a Funeral Home: the McCluen House, ca. 1847-2021
Last week the former Kish funeral home, a familiar landmark at Sproul and Lawrence Roads, passed into history. Now, after 1998 Sproul Road has been demolished, it is worth looking back on this building’s roughly 174-year life....
The Jones Pottery Factory: Part Two, 1850-1869
In 1842 Benjamin Jones began a profitable pottery manufactory in Marple Township, but in less than 30 years, the factory was destroyed and its existence was slowly fading from memory......
The Jones Pottery Factory: Part One, 1842-1850
For roughly three decades Benjamin Jones operated a pottery on West Chester Pike in Marple Township, yet aside from scattered references, little has been written about it until now....