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16 unusual facts about Delaware County


Aaron Rowand

When he was with the Phillies, Rowand and his family lived in Garnet Valley, which is in Delaware County, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

B.J. Phillips

Instead of Brown's photo and byline, those of Phillips ran in at least the edition delivered to suburban Delaware County, PA, while Brown's photo and byline ran properly in at least the edition delivered to suburban Montgomery County, PA.

Birmingham, Pennsylvania

Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, formerly known as Birmingham Township and before 1790 part of the Chester County township.

Edwin Erickson

Erickson served as Director of Public Health and later Chief Administrative Office (1976–82) of Upper Darby Township.

Frank Hastings Griffin

Griffin worked at American Viscose Corp from 1918 until his retirement, also serving as a director of the Southeast National Bank in Chester, PA, the Delaware County (PA) Chamber of Commerce, the American Insulator Corp, and American Viscose Corp.

George Windle Read

In retirement Read resided in Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania.

Giovanni Bonventre

That same year, Bonanno and Bonventre purchased a dairy farm near Middletown, New York in the Catskill Mountains.

Joppa, Texas

The community got its start when in 1881, J. S. and Jane Danford of Delaware County, Iowa, donated two acres of land on the north bank of the river for a school and church.

KDST

The transmitter and broadcast tower are located six miles southwest of Dyersville, near the intersection of 250th Street and 300th Avenue, in rural Hopkinton in Delaware County.

Lena Pierpont

In the 1900 census, Lena L. Pierpont was enumerated in Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana, married within the year.

Luigi Guanella

According to Catholic News Service (CNS), the miracle needed for his canonization was the healing of a young adult male, William Glisson (who was 21 at the time of the accident and is now 30 and married), from the United States who had fell over a hole and hit his head while skating backward without a helmet, rollerblading down the Baltimore Pike in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

Steve Pulcinella

Pulcinella was born and raised in Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania where he began strength training at his high school, Ridley High School in Folsom, with his cousin, now-bodybuilder Dave Pulcinella.

Sylvia Seegrist

Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist (born July 31, 1960) is an American woman who on October 30, 1985 opened fire at a Springfield, Pennsylvania shopping mall, killing three people and wounding seven others before being disarmed by a Volunteer Firefighter/EMT who was shopping at the mall.

Texas County, Oklahoma

Texas County is one of four counties in the United States to border the state with which it shares its name (the other three are Nevada County, California, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Ohio County, West Virginia).

Tom Ingelsby

He spent his youth in Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and played basketball and football at St Francis of Assisi Elementary School in Springfield.

Tom Keifer

Carl Thomas Keifer (born January 26, 1961, in Springfield, Pennsylvania) is an American vocalist for the band Cinderella.


Amasa J. Parker

Parker was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839, as the representative from Delaware and Broome counties.

Bill Adolph

He was first elected state representative in 1988 when incumbent Mary Ann Arty vacated the seat after being elected to the Delaware County Council.

Eucha, Oklahoma

Eucha, pronounced "oochee", is a small rural community located in Delaware County, Oklahoma, north of Lake Eucha.

Interboro High School

Interboro High School is a high school located in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in Delaware County.

Kelly's Corners Railroad Station

Kelly's Corners Station, MP 51.4 on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, (and thus 51.4 miles from Kingston Point) served a rural farming community, which there were plenty of in Delaware County.

Marion K. Sanders

In 1952, she ran a grassroots campaign as a Democrat-Liberal for the U.S. Congress in what was then the 28th Congressional District of New York, at the time a heavily Republican District encompassing Delaware County, Orange County, Rockland County, and Sullivan County.

Radcliffe Killam

Killam was born in Grove in Delaware County in northeastern Oklahoma to Oliver Winfield Killam (1874–1959) and the former Harriet "Hattie" Smith (1876–1949), Killam's father was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1911 to 1914 and the Oklahoma State Senate from 1915 to 1918.

Woodchuck Lodge

Woodchuck Lodge, also known as John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site is in Roxbury in the western Catskills of Delaware County, New York, was a summertime home of naturalist John Burroughs.