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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JMI_dr-george-smith_Upper-Darby-PA.html
A doctor, judge, scientist, and State Senator. Smith came to Collenbrook in 1829 upon his marriage to Mary Lewis, heir to this eighteenth-century family estate. He was founder of the Delaware County Institute of Science and author of the 1862 "His…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JMH_collen-brook-farm_Upper-Darby-PA.html
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19UU_thomas-garrett_Upper-Darby-PA.html
Born at Riverview, near here, Garrett was a prominent abolitionist and Underground Railroad activist. He moved to Wilmington, DE in 1822, and sent many fugitive slaves to his brothers at Riverview, Fernland Farms, and here at Thornfield. He was a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CP_lower-swedish-cabin_Upper-Darby-PA.html
The only remaining log cabin of its type, among several once located on Darby Creek. Evidently built by Swedish settlers who came to this area after 1638. Used by the early Philadelphia film-maker, Siegmund Lubin, as the site for several pre-1910 …