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Plymouth Meeting House is the name of a village situated at the intersection of the Plymouth and Perkiomen turnpikes, on the township line. On this [Plymouth] side is the meeting house, school house and four houses; and in Whitemarsh two stores, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, post office and twenty-four houses.
The first school in the township was established by the Plymouth Meeting Society of Friends in 1780, although some records indicate an earlier school. A school was established at Cold Point in 1821. Public schools, established under the system authorized by the legislature in 1834, included Cold Point School, Plymouth Valley School, the Eight ...
Plymouth Township is a township with home rule status in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The township has been governed by a home rule charter since 1976 and is no longer subject to the Pennsylvania Township Code. [3] The population was 16,525 at the 2010 census. It is serviced by the Colonial School District and is home to the Plymouth ...
Cold Point Historic District is a national historic district located in Plymouth Township and Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is an eastward extension of the Plymouth Meeting Historic District. It encompasses 62 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site dated from 1745 to 1878 in the Village of Cold Point.
Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located at the corner of Germantown Pike and Butler Pike in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Plymouth Meeting Historic District , and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Several meeting houses are no longer in use by Friends, but are still listed buildings: Brandeston Meeting House, Suffolk, listed Grade II [7] Brigstock House, Northamptonshire, listed Grade II [8] Quakers Friars, Bristol, listed Grade I; Farfield Friends Meeting House (1689), West Yorkshire; The Old Meeting House, Wymondham, Norfolk (1687 ...
The first Central High School. Plymouth's Central High School was built in 1884 and was destroyed by fire in 1905. The first Central High School was designed by the architect Frederick J. Amsden, [7] and built in 1884 by Samuel Livingston French and his Plymouth Planing Mill Co. The school saw its first graduating class in 1886, but was ...
The Plymouth Meeting Mall was designed by Victor Gruen and built by The Rouse Company in 1966, it was the third fully enclosed shopping mall in the Philadelphia area. The original two anchor stores were Strawbridge & Clothier and Lit Brothers. The One Plymouth Meeting office tower was added on an outparcel in 1969. [1]