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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
 		 Court House:

201 West Front Street
County Government Center Building
Media, PA 19063-2708
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:
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Cities and Towns:
- Aldan borough Incorporated Area
- Aston township  
- Brookhaven borough Incorporated Area
- Chadds Ford township  
- Chester city Incorporated Area
- Chester Heights borough Incorporated Area
- Clifton Heights borough Incorporated Area
- Collingdale borough Incorporated Area
- Colwyn borough Incorporated Area
- Darby borough Incorporated Area
- East Lansdowne borough Incorporated Area
- Eddystone borough Incorporated Area
- Edgmont township  
- Folcroft borough Incorporated Area
- Glenolden borough Incorporated Area
- Haverford township  
- Lansdowne borough Incorporated Area
- Lawrence Park township  
- Lower Chichester township  
- Manor borough Incorporated Area
- Marcus Hook borough Incorporated Area
- Marple township  
- Media (County Seat) borough Incorporated Area
- Millbourne borough Incorporated Area
- Morton borough Incorporated Area
- Nether Providence township  
- Norwood borough Incorporated Area
- Parkside borough Incorporated Area
- Philadelphia city Incorporated Area
- Prospect Park borough Incorporated Area
- Ridley township  
- Ridley Park borough Incorporated Area
- Rose Valley borough Incorporated Area
- Rutledge borough Incorporated Area
- Sharon Hill borough Incorporated Area
- Springfield township  
- Swarthmore borough Incorporated Area
- Thornbury township  
- Tinicum township  
- Trainer borough Incorporated Area
- Upland borough Incorporated Area
- Upper Chichester township  
- Upper Darby township  
- Upper Providence township  
- Wayne township  
- 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, act locally."
 

 

 

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