Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania Plymouth Meeting is positioned in Pennsylvania Plymouth Meeting - Plymouth Meeting Township Plymouth, Whitemarsh Plymouth Meeting is a census-designated place (CDP) that straddles Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The populace of Plymouth Meeting was 6,177 at the 2010 census.
Plymouth Meeting is home to the; Colonial School District, the recently renovated Plymouth Meeting Mall, and a several large office parks and shopping centers.
Headquarters. The confluence of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276), the Blue Route (I-476), and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-476) at the Mid-County Interchange occur in Plymouth Meeting.
The region was originally settled by members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, who assembled the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse in 1708.
Slave holding was condemned by the Society of Friends in 1754, very several slaves were held in Plymouth Township, and only one by the year 1830.
Married to George Corson's daughter, Helen (Corson) Hovenden, Hovenden was best known for painting realistic scenes taken right out of American life as he experienced it in the farmlands of Plymouth Meeting.
Growth continued for Plymouth Meeting amid the 1900s which lead to the advent of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Plymouth Meeting Mall, many high-rise and garden apartment complexes, momentous undivided industries and office buildings.
Many notable businesses maintain their American command posts in Plymouth Meeting, most prominently the Swedish furniture company, IKEA.
What is now Germantown Pike was ordered laid out by the Provincial Government in 1687 as a "cart road" from Philadelphia to Plymouth Meeting.
A road from Plymouth Meeting to Gwynedd appears to have been assembled in 1751.
The Plymouth Meeting Post Office appears to have been established sometime before to 1827.
Among early industries in Plymouth Township was the Hickorytown Forge directed by the Wood family, and a forerunner of the present Alan Wood Steel Company.
The Plymouth Railroad was assembled in 1836 to serve some 20 lime kilns operating along the route between Conshohocken and Cold Point.
Prior to the building of the Plymouth Railroad, the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad was assembled along the Schuylkill River through Plymouth Township and commenced operation in 1835.
Later in the 1890s electric street car lines were assembled through Plymouth Meeting.
The first school in the township was established by the Plymouth Meeting Society of Friends in 1780, although some records indicate a school in operation there before that date.
Public schools, established under the fitness authorized by the council in 1834, encompassed Cold Point School on Cold Point Hill, Plymouth Valley School on Butler Pike adjoining to the Friends meeting property, the Eight Square school on North Lane (then known as Spring Mill Road), the Sandy Hill school in Black Horse (now the site of L.
Frank Markel and Sons factory) and the North Star school on Germantown Pike on property presently housing Plymouth Center Union Mission church.
By 1924, two fire companies were in operation, the Plymouth Fire Company and the Harmonville Fire Company.
Growth continued throughout the 1960s and 1970s, which saw the advent of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Plymouth Meeting Mall, high rise and garden apartment complexes, and many undivided industries and bureaus.
Plymouth Township adopted a Home Rule Charter in 1972.
From as early as 1688, lime kilns have been a large, productive and profitable company in Plymouth Meeting and continue to be so today.
The Plymouth Meeting Historic District, Alan West Corson Homestead, Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, and Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Aerial view of Plymouth Meeting Plymouth Meeting is positioned at 40 6 31 N 75 16 57 W (40.108545, -75.282378). It lies primarily inside Plymouth Township, with a lesser portion lying inside Whitemarsh Township.
Plymouth Township is immediately adjoining to the Schuylkill River, but all river frontage is occupied by industry.
The historic Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, assembled in 1708, is positioned inside the town.
Plymouth Meeting is home to the Plymouth Meeting Mall, which has AMC Theatres adjoining to it, as well as dining and entertainment spots such as Benihana, Redstone American Grill, P.
It should be pointed out that historically, Plymouth Meeting referred only to the small village at the crossroads of Germantown Pike and Butler Pike.
The present-day Plymouth Meeting Mall is positioned a mile north on Germantown Pike from Plymouth Meeting, at the locale once known as Hickorytown.
Plymouth Meeting lies in both Plymouth and Whitemarsh townships.
The term Plymouth Meeting generally refers to most of Plymouth Township, as the township's ZIP code is congruent with that of Plymouth Meeting.
The Plymouth Meeting postal service, however, is actually positioned just outside Plymouth Township inside Whitemarsh Township.
The Colonial School District maintains its command posts just south of Plymouth Meeting in Whitemarsh Township.
La Salle University maintains a satellite ground in Plymouth Meeting.
Villanova University maintains its baseball facilities on the grounds of the Greater Plymouth Township Community Center.
Plymouth Meeting is the home of Odyssey Fastpitch Softball, a competing girls travel/tournament softball organization.
Plymouth Township has an extensive park system.
Plymouth Township has the Greater Plymouth Community Center and 11 parks comprising approximately 149 acres.
Maple Acres Farm is a family owned farm in Plymouth Meeting open to the enhance with home grown fruits and vegetables as well as home made jellies and crafts.
"The Plymouth Group," The Abolitionists of Montgomery County, (Norristown, PA: Historical Society of Montgomery County, 1900), pp.
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF).
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