Darby Meeting
The Darby Meeting or Darby Friends Meeting House is located in Darby, Pennsylvania. The first recorded minutes of the meeting are dated July 2, 1684, not long after William Penn landed in nearby Chester to establish the colony of Pennsylvania.Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Quaker
- Description: historic church in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Darby Friends Meeting”
- Address: 1017 Main Street, Darby, PA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Darby Free Library and Blessed Virgin Mary Church.
Darby Free Library
Library
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Darby Free Library is a public library at 1001 Main Street in Darby Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Founded as the Darby Library Company in 1743 – just 12 years after Benjamin Franklin organized the Library Company of Philadelphia – it remains one of the oldest libraries in the United States.
Blessed Virgin Mary Church
Church
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Blessed Virgin Mary Church is situated 380 feet northwest of Darby Meeting.
Darby Transit Center
Tram stop
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The T4, formerly Route 11, is a light rail line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority that connects the 13th Street station in Center City, Philadelphia, to Darby Transit Center in Darby, Pennsylvania. Darby Transit Center is situated 750 feet south of Darby Meeting.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Darby and Upper Darby.
Darby
Town
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Darby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Darby had a population of 10,715. The borough is located along Darby Creek 5 miles southwest of Center City Philadelphia.
Upper Darby
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Upper Darby Township, often shortened to Upper Darby, is a home rule township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township had a total population of 85,681, making it the state's sixth-most populated municipality after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, and Erie.
Lansdowne
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Lansdowne is a borough of 10,700 people in Pennsylvania. It has many lovely, big old houses several historic buildings, and a sycamore tree that has been growing since the 1760s.
Darby Meeting
- Categories: Quaker meeting house, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Borough of Darby, Delaware County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.92107° or 39° 55′ 16″ northLongitude
-75.26291° or 75° 15′ 47″ westOpen location code
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way 891346958OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=quakerWikidata ID
Q5222274
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