11 Facts About Darby Pennsylvania

The borough of Darby Pennsylvania is distinct from the nearby municipality of Darby Pennsylvania Township.

The name Darby Pennsylvania is derived from the English city of Derby, the county town of Derbyshire, the origin of many early settlers.

Darby Pennsylvania was involved in real estate, agriculture, and goods trading.

Darby Pennsylvania first served in the Colonial Assembly from 1683 to 1688.

Darby Pennsylvania served as justice of the peace for Chester County from 1684 to 1693 and again from 1695 to 1703.

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Darby Pennsylvania was actively involved with Darby Quaker Meeting House in Chester County, and was one of the Quakers who fought to cease the slave trade amongst Friends.

Darby Pennsylvania called upon purchasers to boycott products made by slaves as stolen products, thus advocating what we would call today a "Fair Trade" policy.

Darby Pennsylvania represented the Chester Quarterly Meeting at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends 17 times between 1688 and 1715.

Darby Pennsylvania is home to the fifth-oldest all-volunteer Fire Department and the Darby Pennsylvania Free Library, one of the oldest libraries in the United States, founded in 1743.

Darby Pennsylvania is a relatively urban place, with almost twice the population density of nearby Darby Pennsylvania Township.

Two, owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, one at Main and Sixth Streets, where the SEPTA Route 11 trolley crosses today, and the other, Boone Station, at Poplar Street and Lawrence Avenue The other, owned by the Darby Pennsylvania Railroad, stood where the current station stands, and later across the tracks.