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Historic Union Library building on Bishop Hollow Road near Ridley Creek Park [5] 1687 Holmes Map. The area was settled about 1683 and formed into Providence Township. On October 17, 1683, the residents of Providence Township petitioned the Court of Chester County, of which they were then a part, to establish a road from Providence to Chester.
Thomas Holme's Survey Map (1687) Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles (10 km) northeast of Center City.Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south to Castor Avenue on the northwest and southwest, to Cheltenham Avenue on the north, and to Aramingo ...
The Mill Creek Historic District near Bryn Mawr and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, United States, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980. [1] The area of the historic district was increased on August 30, 1996.
The lower creek has some historic mills and related buildings on Mill Creek Road and nearby Rose Glen Road. [4] Mill Creek Road follows the south branch of the creek from Montgomery Avenue near Ardmore to Old Gulph Road, and follows the lower creek to River Road by the Schuylkill River. The road is mostly on the right bank, with two crossings ...
The road heads into the commercial center of Dushore, where PA 87 splits from US 220 by turning east onto East Main Street. The route continues onto Mill Street, passing homes and coming to an intersection with the northern terminus of PA 487, at which point it turns north onto Carpenter Street, heading northeast through more residential areas ...
The township is in northeastern Clarion County, bordered on the east by Jefferson County, on the northwest by the Clarion River, and on the southwest by its tributaries Mill Creek and Little Mill Creek. The unincorporated community of Fisher is near the center of the township.
The borough of Mill Creek is located in east-central Huntingdon County on the northeastern side of the Juniata River where it is joined by Mill Creek. U.S. Route 22 passes through the borough, leading northwestward 5 miles (8 km) to Huntingdon, the county seat, and southeastward 6 miles (10 km) to Mount Union.
The road, which runs north from Chester to within a few blocks of today's downtown, is shown on a 1687 map along with the names of local landowners. [11] It forms the eastern border of the borough. Thomas Minshall, a Quaker, was an early Media resident, settling just outside the small village then known as "Providence", along Providence Great ...