Ridley Park, Pennsylvania Borough of Ridley Park MH-47 - G Chinook amid the airplane 's rollout ceremony 6 May 2007 at Boeing in Ridley Park.
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Ridley Park is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Ridley Park is the home of The Boeing Company's CH-47 Chinook helicopter division. Land adjoining to Stoney Creek in Ridley Township has been identified as a Native American town site.
Historians also believe that additional villages may have existed at other locations along Stoney Creek and Crum Creek in Ridley Park. Native Americans decidedly influenced the assembled surrounding through their network of paths laid out for travel and communication purposes.
He later replaced the cabin with a brick home and began farming 133 acres (0.54 km2) in the Ridley Park area. Chester Pike, originally a footpath, was realigned and widened by William Penn.
Ridley Park was established by Isaac Hinckley in 1871.
He was the President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad. He wanted to grew the company's rail line to gain more company in the same way the Pennsylvania Railroad had earlier created a Main Line from 30th Street Station in Philadelphia to Paoli.
Undaunted, he traveled further south on Chester Pike to the region now known as Ridley Park. Hinckley hired Robert Morris Copeland, a noted Boston landscape architect, to precarious a master plan for a suburban park improve which became known as the Borough of Ridley Park.
Copeland's design is Delaware County's first master prepared community. Because of its beautifully landscaped streets and parks, and its 20-acre (81,000 m2) man-made lake, Ridley Park became prominent in the late 19th century and early part of the 20th century as a summer resort for wealthy Philadelphians who assembled most of the Victorian style homes still lived in today. The first train of passengers-cars stopped at Ridley Park on October 19, 1872.
Enumeration return recorded the populace of Ridley Park as 439.
Ridley Park is positioned at 39 52 47 N 75 19 32 W (39.879631, -75.325482). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), of which, 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2) of it is territory and 0.93% is water.
The borough is served by the Ridley School District.
It consists of Ridley Township, and the boroughs of Ridley Park and Eddystone.
The precinct has one high school, one middle school, and seven elementary schools.
Ridley High School is home to the WRSD airways broadcast.
Madeline Parish in Ridley Park, and the St.
Cardinal O'Hara High School, serving grades 9 through 12, is a coeducational school positioned in Springfield, and serves the Ridley Park, Chester, Swarthmore, and Springfield area.
The 2012 movie Silver Linings Playbook takes place in and around Ridley Park, which is credited at the end of the film.
Ryan, Pennsylvania politician; namesake of the state's Capitol Annex and University of Pennsylvania veterinary hospital "Ridley Park officials still working out budget kinks".
Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1630-1707 (edited by Albert Cook Myers.
A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, edited by John W.
Historic structures report: Joseph Pratt Farmhouse, Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Ridley Creek State Park, Edgemont Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania ...
The history of Ridley Park by Keith Lockhart Published in 1987, K.
Lockhart (Ridley Park, Pa.) History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Henry Graham Ashmead, Philadelphia: L.
History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
The history of Ridley Park by Keith Lockhart Published in 1987, K.
Lockhart (Ridley Park; Pa.) History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Ridley Park.
Borough of Ridley Park Ridley Park Police Ridley Park at Delaware - County - PA.com Municipalities and communities of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States Aldan Brookhaven Chester Heights Clifton Heights Collingdale Colwyn Darby East Lansdowne Eddystone Folcroft Glenolden Lansdowne Marcus Hook Media Millbourne Morton Norwood Parkside Prospect Park Ridley Park Rose Valley Rutledge Sharon Hill Swarthmore Trainer Upland Yeadon Aston Bethel Chadds Ford Chester Concord Darby Edgmont Haverford Lower Chichester Marple Middletown Nether Providence Newtown Radnor Ridley Springfield Thornbury Tinicum Upper Chichester Upper Darby Upper Providence This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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