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Nether Providence

Nether Providence

Davidson, Michele S.

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Travel GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738572632
ISBN13: 9780738572635
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Jul 5 2010
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Join Michele S. Davidson as she documents Nether Providence's fascinating growth and development over the last three centuries.

In 1682, John Sharpless settled in Nether Providence Township on a 1,000-acre tract of land along Ridley Creek that had been granted to him by William Penn. Other settlers soon followed, establishing Nether Providence as a small, successful, farming community. Over the next two centuries, Nether Providence grew into a thriving manufacturing center with 14 operating mills along the township's two creeks. At the turn of the 19th century, Nether Providence became a summer resort area rivaling the Main Line of Philadelphia, with such famous residents as Dr. Horace Howard Furness, a well-regarded Shakespearean scholar and the brother of architect Frank Furness, and Alexander Kelly McClure, the owner of the Philadelphia Times and an assistant adjunct general appointed by Pres. Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. In 2007, Wallingford, the largest community in Nether Providence, was named by Money Magazine as the ninth best place to live in the United States.

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