2/22/2024 0 Comments Radnor township buildingNewtown itself was established in 1681, being William Penn’s first planned inland township west of Philadelphia. The north and south sides of the lane that was to be called Newtown Rd. To John Jarman (aka Jerman), constable of Radnor Twpġ685-1721. In the Tower of London for blasphemy) 152 acres were conveyed 350 acres were sold to John Evans and then in 1688 (20 years after William Penn had been imprisoned There is no record of Davies ever visiting America and he soon sold his land, mostly in the southern part of Radnor, to various purchasers. (aka Daves) when in 1681 he bought 5,000 acres from William Penn, who had been granted the land by Charles II of England. Until then it had been almost exclusively populated by Lenni Lenape Indians, but with the newcomers' arrival it became known as The Welsh Tract.īanjo Town, established 200 years later, is a 12-acre section of the initial land grant made to Richard Davies Īround 1663 40,000 acres of Pennsylvania were settled predominantly by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) from Radnorshire, Some time after 1948, but its legendary community andĭistinctive wood frame houses are still very much inĮvidence as a standalone piece of American history.ġ864 lots overlaid onto Google Maps, showing today's eight surviving wood frame houses on the original Matlack Tract Into folklore since it vanished from official maps Radnor Friends Meeting House and 13 miles NW of Philadelphia. It sitsĪpproximately ¼-mile west of the historic On Newtown Road, Ithan (formerly Radnorville). 13 miles NW of Philadelphia, 1 mile south of Lancaster Pike & the PRRĪ historic neighborhood founded in 1885, situated dead center of Radnor Township, Delaware County,
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