The Millbourne Mills years ago made up most of the town years ago. The mills were run by the Sellers Family for many years. The mills stood where the old Sears building is, north of Market St and west of Cobbs Creek
COMMUNITIES NAMED FOR MILLS THEY GREW AROUND
Industrial growth spurred the
settlement and naming of many Delaware County locations. Millbourne was named for the Millbourne
Mills, Glenolden for the Glenolden Mills, Trainer for the Trainer Mills and Eddystone
for the Eddystone Mills.
Among the county towns and village
s in this classification are Linwood, Glen Mills, Darlington and Lester. The former two were named for mills,
Darlington for a dairy and Lester for a piano factory.
The Linwood
Mills were built near the Trainer station along Marcus Hook creek in what is
now Trainer borough. It is believed that
they were name for the Wood family.
Originally, Linwood Mills were
grist mills but in 1837 they were changed into a cotton factory. David Trainer was the eventual owner. Goods manufactured at the mills received
special notice at the National Fair in Washington, D.C., in May 1846.
No definite instance of Linwood’s naming was
found. However, it is probably correctly
presumed that it took its name from the mill with the mill getting its name
from the founding family, the Woods.
Glen Mills,
in eastern Thornbury, retains the identical name of its namesake. The
community, railroad station post office and school have all adopted the name of
the first industry in that area, Glen Mills.
When Glen Mills were established is
not recorded but if one report is true, it may have been in the mid-eighteenth
century. One story is that Glen Mills
manufactured paper money for use during the Revolutionary War.
The dairy that gave its name to a
county community was the Darlington Dairy operated by Jesse and Jared
Darlington. The post office and railroad
station established there both took the names of the dairy men.
Housewives
who are at present staged by post-OPA butter prices, may be comforted to know
that butter from the Darlington dairy sold readily at one dollar per pound, the
year round, in both the Philadelphia and New York markets.
The Lester Piano Company was responsible for
the name of Lester, in central Tinicum Township. The community which grew up around the
factory took its name. Another community
which was named for an industry was the section now adjacent to the Gladstone
railroad station on the Philadelphia to West Chester rail line through
Lansdowne.
This section was formerly know as
Kellyville. The name was derived from D.
and C. Kelly. The Kelly’s operated
extensive cotton mills at this location about 1850.
*Excavating and Re-Creating Color and Texture at Stenton Mar 17, 12:00 PM
Meyerson Hall Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hall, 210 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please join Cassie Myers and Laura Keim as they explore the physical, object, and documentary evidence they uncovered and the interpretive decisions they made to restore historically accurate yellow pigments and dyes, as well as the historic textures of the textiles and paint.
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*Pennsylvania Forum Building: Restoring a Place of Knowledge Mar 22, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom- registration required
Join us to learn what it takes to restore custom architectural features of the historic Education Building at the State Capitol so it can once again be used and enjoyed by Pennsylvanians for years to come.
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Building Philadelphia Spring Speaker Series- Frank Furness, Louis Kahn, and the Invention of Philadelphia Modernism Mar 22, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Zoom- registration required Leading architectural historians have tended to interpret the architecture of Louis I. Kahn (1901–74) as primarily influenced by the Beaux-Arts system of design, as well as the ancient ruins that Kahn saw during his brief travels around the Mediterranean. As a result, little attention has been paid to the links between Kahn and Frank Furness (1839–1912), the two leading Philadelphia architects of their respective eras. But new research to be presented in this lecture demonstrates that Kahn engaged deeply with Furness’s work: he opposed the demolition of Furness-designed banks, proposed the preservation and renovation of Furness’s buildings at the Philadelphia College of Art, and even joined the board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to spearhead the restoration of its Furness-designed building. Through examining the Kahn-Furness connection, this lecture will demonstrate how Kahn’s philosophy of design was rooted in an American way of making buildings, and it will place Kahn—at last—squarely within a Philadelphia architectural tradition spanning from Furness through the twentieth century.
In these lectures, renowned local architects, professors, and historians explore the political, economic, and design trends that drove Philadelphia’s development. Different speaker each week! $12/15 single, $90/110 full series
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MALT Class at Cliveden! Mar 23, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cliveden, 6401 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19144
The tour will explore Cliveden’s current exhibition, Preserving & Adapting their World: The Women of Cliveden with Education Director Carolyn Wallace. Learn about how the exhibit was developed and have the opportunity to see objects from Cliveden’s textile collections not currently on view. $25
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*Destructive Reconstruction and the Exclusive Rebuilding of Cities Mar 23, 12:00 PM
Kleinman Forum- Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Dr. Ammar Azzouz will present a paper that brings the voices of Syrians to the debate on reconstruction and destruction of Syria in an attempt to link them to the fortunes of new architecture, and more broadly, the New Syria.
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*Dedicating an Historical Marker for Anna Elizabeth Dickinson Mar 23, 4:00 PM
Race Street Meetinghouse, 1515 Cherry St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
In honor of Women’s History Month, PHMC and Friends Select School cordially invite you to the dedication of an official state historical marker commemorating Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932).
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*The Invincible Garden Ladies with Abra Lee Mar 23, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Zoom- registration required
From the ordinary to the extraordinary, Black women have made their mark on American horticultural history. Join us for a conversation during Women’s History Month with renowned horticulturist Abra Lee, founder of Conquer The Soil.
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*The Root of All Evil: Greed, Murder and Life Insurance Swindles in Greater Philadelphia Mar 28, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Zoom- registration required
This program, presented by Jennifer Green of the Chester County History Center, will examine some of the worst cases of murder for life insurance in southeastern Pennsylvania, including the Udderzook Tragedy, the Sarah Whiteling murders, H.H. Holmes, and more.
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