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This district encompasses 507 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Kennett Square. They are mostly residential and commercial structures that were built between 1875 and 1924 in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Colonial Revival, Victorian, and Federal.
Marlborough Village Historic District: March 8, 1995 : 354–418 Marlborough Road and 901 and 940 Marlborough Springs Road, near Kennett Square: East Marlborough and Newlin Townships: 64: Humphry Marshall House
Longwood Gardens has a long, varied history. For thousands of years, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished its streams, hunted its forests, and planted its fields. Evidence of the tribe's existence is found in quartz spear points that have been discovered on and around the property and can be found on display in the Peirce-du Pont House on the Longwood Gardens property.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are provided below when available.
Kennett Square is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Kennett Square had a population of 5,943. [4]Kennett Square is located in the Delaware Valley and considered a suburb of both Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city as of 2020, and Wilmington, Delaware.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40 km 2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2), or 0.13%, is water. The northwestern part of the township encircles the separate borough of Kennett Square, while the census-designated place of Hamorton is in the northeastern part of the township.
Kennett Friends Website; Old Kennett Meeting House, U.S. Route 1, 1 mile North of Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Chester County, PA: 34 photos, 3 color transparencies, 7 measured drawings, 19 data pages, and 3 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey; Old Kennett Friends Cemetery at Find a Grave
Cedarcroft, also known as Bayard Taylor House, is a historic house on Gatehouse Drive in Chester County, Pennsylvania near Kennett Square. It was built in 1859 for writer Bayard Taylor (1825–1878), and is a good local example of Italianate architecture. It remained Taylor's home until 1874, and is where he wrote some of his well-known works.