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Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Delaware County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Media
Year Organized: 1789
Square Miles: 184
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Court House: 201 West Front Street
County Government Center Building
Media, PA 19063-2708
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for the Delaware River, which in turn had been named for
Lord de la Warr, governor of Virginia. Media
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on September 6, 1789, from
part of Chester County, and named for the Delaware River, which in turn had been
named for Lord de la Warr, governor of Virginia. Media, its county seat since
1850, was incorporated as a borough on March 11, 1850, and named for its central
location in the county. Chester, its original county seat, was the county seat
of Chester County before 1788, and the temporary capital of Pennsylvania,
1681–1682, before Philadelphia was laid out. The county adopted a home rule
charter in May 1975.
Delaware includes the first permanent European settlement, the Swedes on Tinicum
Island in 1643. The center of the Battle of Brandywine in 1777 was in Delaware.
Phenomenal population growth occurred steadily after 1800, until a fall off
began in 1980. Its many fast streams made it a milling center for lumber,
grains, paper, tobacco, and textiles, and it was located on main roads south and
west from Philadelphia. Shipbuilding flourished, beginning in the colonial
period, and oil refineries arose in the early twentieth century. Industrial jobs
brought in a large immigrant population and from 1885 to 1915 middle class
families from Philadelphia relocated here. Once a strong dairy and mushroom farm
area, agriculture is now almost gone. Farms occupy only 7 percent of the land.
There were Underground Railroad stations in Chester Borough, Upper Darby, and
Newtown Square, and Martin Luther King Jr. was educated at Crozier Baptist
Seminary. Colleges and universities include Swarthmore, Haverford, Villanova,
Cheyney State, and Widener.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Aldan |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Aston |
township |
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- Brookhaven |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chadds Ford |
township |
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- Chester |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Chester Heights |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Clifton Heights |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Collingdale |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Colwyn |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Darby |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- East Lansdowne |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Eddystone |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Edgmont |
township |
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- Folcroft |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Glenolden |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Haverford |
township |
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- Lansdowne |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lawrence Park |
township |
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- Lower Chichester |
township |
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- Manor |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Marcus Hook |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Marple |
township |
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- Media
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Millbourne |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Morton |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Nether Providence |
township |
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- Norwood |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Parkside |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Philadelphia |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Prospect Park |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ridley |
township |
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- Ridley Park |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Rose Valley |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Rutledge |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sharon Hill |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Springfield |
township |
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- Swarthmore |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Thornbury |
township |
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- Tinicum |
township |
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- Trainer |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Upland |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Upper Chichester |
township |
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- Upper Darby |
township |
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- Upper Providence |
township |
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- Wayne |
township |
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- Yeadon |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
County Resources:
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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