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Welcome to Edgmont Township
Edgmont Township, 9.8 square miles in area, is located in the north-central portion of Delaware County. Its northern boundary is on the Delaware County-Chester County line where it lies adjacent to Westtown and Willistown Townships, Chester County. In Delaware County it is bordered by Thornbury Township on the west, Middletown Township on the south, and Upper Providence Township on the southeast. On the east, the Township is bordered by Crum Creek, the Springton Reservoir, and Newtown Township.
Welcome to Edgmont Township
Edgmont Township, 9.8 square miles in area, is located in the north-central portion of Delaware County. Its northern boundary is on the Delaware County-Chester County line where it lies adjacent to Westtown and Willistown Townships, Chester County. In Delaware County it is bordered by Thornbury Township on the west, Middletown Township on the south, and Upper Providence Township on the southeast. On the east, the Township is bordered by Crum Creek, the Springton Reservoir, and Newtown Township.
General Information
Quick Facts
Area: 9.74 square miles, 168th District
50% residential, 5% commercial, 5% industrial, 40% parkland
Population: 3,918 (2000 Census), 2,735 (1990 Census), 1,410 (1980 Census)
Township Total Miles – 30.21: Township Road System 15.68, State Highway System 14.53
Distance to Philadelphia (Center City): 20 miles or 45 minutes
Parks and recreation: Ridley Creek State Park, Colonial Plantation
Feet above sea level: 160 to 480
Rose Tree Media School District School Closing Number – 542
Staff
Township Manager/Secretary/Treasurer/Road Master/Zoning Officer
Samantha Reiner
edgmontmanager@comcast.net
Financial Administrator, Deputy Tax Collector
Sandy Coleman
edgmontfinance@comcast.net
Administrative Assistant
Nicole Cariello
edgmontadmin@comcast.net
Building Inspector, Codes Enforcement, Sewage Enforcement Officer
Stuart Pollock
edgmont_building@comcast.net
Building Administrator, ZHB Secretary
Susan Sharp
edgmont_building@comcast.net
Fire Marshall
Elizabeth Tickner
edgmont_building@comcast.net
Township Meeting Room Rental
The meeting room in the Township building is available to Township residents for homeowner’s meetings and community events. Seating capacity is approximately 60 persons. A Certificate of Insurance is required. Call the Township office for additional information.
Area: 9.74 square miles, 168th District
50% residential, 5% commercial, 5% industrial, 40% parkland
Population: 3,918 (2000 Census), 2,735 (1990 Census), 1,410 (1980 Census)
Township Total Miles – 30.21: Township Road System 15.68, State Highway System 14.53
Distance to Philadelphia (Center City): 20 miles or 45 minutes
Parks and recreation: Ridley Creek State Park, Colonial Plantation
Feet above sea level: 160 to 480
Rose Tree Media School District School Closing Number – 542
Staff
Township Manager/Secretary/Treasurer/Road Master/Zoning Officer
Samantha Reiner
edgmontmanager@comcast.net
Financial Administrator, Deputy Tax Collector
Sandy Coleman
edgmontfinance@comcast.net
Administrative Assistant
Nicole Cariello
edgmontadmin@comcast.net
Building Inspector, Codes Enforcement, Sewage Enforcement Officer
Stuart Pollock
edgmont_building@comcast.net
Building Administrator, ZHB Secretary
Susan Sharp
edgmont_building@comcast.net
Fire Marshall
Elizabeth Tickner
edgmont_building@comcast.net
Township Meeting Room Rental
The meeting room in the Township building is available to Township residents for homeowner’s meetings and community events. Seating capacity is approximately 60 persons. A Certificate of Insurance is required. Call the Township office for additional information.
Phone Numbers
Miscellaneous Phone Numbers
Berkheimer
P.O. Box 906
Bangor, PA 18013-0906 EMS Tax
Toll Free 866-701-7206
Per Cap Tax
Toll Free 866-701-7202
Comcast Cable Company
1004 W. Lincoln Highway
Downingtown, PA 19335
610-296-5100
Court:
Regional Court #32-2-43
District Justice Leon Hunter, III
30 Media Line Road
Newtown Square, PA 19073
610-356-2997
Delaware County Courthouse
201 West Front Street
Media, PA 19063
610-891-4000
Edgmont Fire Company No.1
P.O. Box 103
Gradyville, PA 19039
610-459-5688
Newtown-Edgmont Little League
P.O. Box 75
Newtown Square, PA 19073
John McDevitt
610-325-7736
Pennsylvania Game Commission
448 Snyder Road
Reading, PA 19605
610-926-3136
610-926-1966
PECO Energy
Customer Service Center
2301 Market Street
P.O. Box 8699
Philadelphia, PA 19101
1-800-494-4000
1-800-841-4141 (emergencies)
Pennsylvania State Police
1342 W. Baltimore Pike
Media, PA 19063
1-484-840-1000
For emergencies dial 911
Pennsylvania One Call System, Inc.
1-800-242-1776
www.paonecall.org
PennDOT
440 South Old Middletown Road
Bortendale, PA 19063
610-566-0972
Pot Hole Hotline: 1-800-FIX-ROAD
1-800-349-7623
Rose Tree Media School District
Education Center
308 N. Olive Street
Media, PA 19063
610-627-6000
Water
Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.
762 W. Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
1-877-WTR-AQUA or
1-877-987-2782
http://www.aquaamerica.com
Local Churches
Gradyville United Methodist Church
1229 Middletown Road
P.O. Box 101
Gradyville, PA 19039
Telephone: 610-358-1421
Immanuel Independence Baptist Church
1519 Middletown Road
Glen Mills, PA 19342
Telephone: 610-558-0159
www.IBCNow.com
Imago Dei Metropolitan Community Church
1223 Middletown Road
Glen Mills, PA 19342
Telephone: 610-358-1716
www.imagodeimcc.org
St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church
1855 N. Middletown Road
P.O Box 231
Gradyville, PA 19039
Telephone: 610-459-5310
St. Sharbel Catholic Church
3679 N. Providence Road
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Telephone: 610-353-5952
Berkheimer
P.O. Box 906
Bangor, PA 18013-0906 EMS Tax
Toll Free 866-701-7206
Per Cap Tax
Toll Free 866-701-7202
Comcast Cable Company
1004 W. Lincoln Highway
Downingtown, PA 19335
610-296-5100
Court:
Regional Court #32-2-43
District Justice Leon Hunter, III
30 Media Line Road
Newtown Square, PA 19073
610-356-2997
Delaware County Courthouse
201 West Front Street
Media, PA 19063
610-891-4000
Edgmont Fire Company No.1
P.O. Box 103
Gradyville, PA 19039
610-459-5688
Newtown-Edgmont Little League
P.O. Box 75
Newtown Square, PA 19073
John McDevitt
610-325-7736
Pennsylvania Game Commission
448 Snyder Road
Reading, PA 19605
610-926-3136
610-926-1966
PECO Energy
Customer Service Center
2301 Market Street
P.O. Box 8699
Philadelphia, PA 19101
1-800-494-4000
1-800-841-4141 (emergencies)
Pennsylvania State Police
1342 W. Baltimore Pike
Media, PA 19063
1-484-840-1000
For emergencies dial 911
Pennsylvania One Call System, Inc.
1-800-242-1776
www.paonecall.org
PennDOT
440 South Old Middletown Road
Bortendale, PA 19063
610-566-0972
Pot Hole Hotline: 1-800-FIX-ROAD
1-800-349-7623
Rose Tree Media School District
Education Center
308 N. Olive Street
Media, PA 19063
610-627-6000
Water
Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.
762 W. Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
1-877-WTR-AQUA or
1-877-987-2782
http://www.aquaamerica.com
Local Churches
Gradyville United Methodist Church
1229 Middletown Road
P.O. Box 101
Gradyville, PA 19039
Telephone: 610-358-1421
Immanuel Independence Baptist Church
1519 Middletown Road
Glen Mills, PA 19342
Telephone: 610-558-0159
www.IBCNow.com
Imago Dei Metropolitan Community Church
1223 Middletown Road
Glen Mills, PA 19342
Telephone: 610-358-1716
www.imagodeimcc.org
St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church
1855 N. Middletown Road
P.O Box 231
Gradyville, PA 19039
Telephone: 610-459-5310
St. Sharbel Catholic Church
3679 N. Providence Road
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Telephone: 610-353-5952
History
History of Edgmont Township
The first record of Edgmont Township dates from 1686, when Joseph Baker was listed as Constable for Gilead, the original name for Edgmont and a portion of Thornbury Township.
The name Edgmont was adopted in 1687, and derives from the Royal Manor of Edgmond on Shropshire from which the Bakers emigrated.
Early documents spell it “Edgemont”, “Edgmond”, “Edgemont” or “Edgmont”, with the township officially settling on “Edgmont” in the nineteenth century, incorporated as a township in 1687.
Edgmont’s earliest settlers lived in close proximity to Edgmont Great Road (now Middletown Road). It is logical to assume they deliberately passed over the steeper, rockier land east of Ridley Creek for the more easily cultivated plateau to the west.
Edgmont’s popular Historian, the late Jane Levis Carter, indicates in her book, Edgmont, the story of a township, Native Americans occupied areas of Pennsylvania as far back as 12,000 to 18,000 years ago. In the early 1600’s the Indians, or Native Americans living in what became known at the end of the 1600’s as Edgmont Township were known as the Lenni Lenape Indians. One of the three Lenni tribes to occupy the watersheds of the Ridley and Crum creeks called themselves the Okehocking Indians. The Okehocking clan were nomad hunters, pursuing deer, elk and caribou. Their crest was the turtle. The Pennslvania Museum and Historical Commission indicates various areas in Edgmont Township as being likely encampments with a high probability of significant archeological resources present.
Bill Kraft, son of the late Federal Judge William Kraft, found many arrowheads in the fields of his family’s farm as a boy. The Kraft farm is now known as Brick House Farms Development.
Sawmills, cotton spinning mills and grist mills were built along the Ridley Creek to process grain and cut lumber for settlers. The colonists who called Edgmont home found their means of travel enhanced by the existence of a grid of Indian trails. In certain areas of Pennsylvania these trails served as “highways”, connecting farmers to markets, quarries, forests, creeks and each other. Inns were built along these major trails, and Edgmont boasts at least three historic buildings that served the historic population - Brick House on Middletown Road ( Kraft Farm house), Gradyville Inn on Middletown Road (Townsend’s home) and Edgmont Inn on West Chester Pike (LaLocanda Restaurant).
Farmers on their return from delivering their early morning harvest of milk to the local creamery would stop at the local Howellville General Store (later the Gradyville General Store at the Gradyville Road intersection with Middletown Road) for their morning newspapers, mail and gossip.
Electricity first came to the Gradyville/Edgmont area in 1920.
The major roads in Edgmont were not paved until the mid 1900’s, perhaps 1945.
It is known that beginning in 1848, wooden rails were installed and the West Chester Turnpike Company began running a horsecar line from Philadelphia, eventually connecting with West Chester. By the end of the 1800’s, trolley cars were running the rails, bringing folks to the 33 acre amusement park built on what was known as Castle Rock.
The rocks at Castle Rock in 1899 resounded with music and merriment as people summered in this cool picnic grove on the Crum Creek. Cabins, arts and craft buildings, cottages and a mess hall were built and used continually as the Castle Rock Cottagers’ Association grew in a park like setting. The amusement atmosphere continued until 1963 when the property was sold to a builder and eventually became the Castle Rock Association and full time residential community it is today.
Edgmont Township evolved as a farming area, with both crops and livestock being cultivated. Many large farms were still in existence as late as the 1960s and 1970s, when development began changing the face of the community.
Today there are over one hundred historical buildings in the Ridley Creek State Park.
The first record of Edgmont Township dates from 1686, when Joseph Baker was listed as Constable for Gilead, the original name for Edgmont and a portion of Thornbury Township.
The name Edgmont was adopted in 1687, and derives from the Royal Manor of Edgmond on Shropshire from which the Bakers emigrated.
Early documents spell it “Edgemont”, “Edgmond”, “Edgemont” or “Edgmont”, with the township officially settling on “Edgmont” in the nineteenth century, incorporated as a township in 1687.
Edgmont’s earliest settlers lived in close proximity to Edgmont Great Road (now Middletown Road). It is logical to assume they deliberately passed over the steeper, rockier land east of Ridley Creek for the more easily cultivated plateau to the west.
Edgmont’s popular Historian, the late Jane Levis Carter, indicates in her book, Edgmont, the story of a township, Native Americans occupied areas of Pennsylvania as far back as 12,000 to 18,000 years ago. In the early 1600’s the Indians, or Native Americans living in what became known at the end of the 1600’s as Edgmont Township were known as the Lenni Lenape Indians. One of the three Lenni tribes to occupy the watersheds of the Ridley and Crum creeks called themselves the Okehocking Indians. The Okehocking clan were nomad hunters, pursuing deer, elk and caribou. Their crest was the turtle. The Pennslvania Museum and Historical Commission indicates various areas in Edgmont Township as being likely encampments with a high probability of significant archeological resources present.
Bill Kraft, son of the late Federal Judge William Kraft, found many arrowheads in the fields of his family’s farm as a boy. The Kraft farm is now known as Brick House Farms Development.
Sawmills, cotton spinning mills and grist mills were built along the Ridley Creek to process grain and cut lumber for settlers. The colonists who called Edgmont home found their means of travel enhanced by the existence of a grid of Indian trails. In certain areas of Pennsylvania these trails served as “highways”, connecting farmers to markets, quarries, forests, creeks and each other. Inns were built along these major trails, and Edgmont boasts at least three historic buildings that served the historic population - Brick House on Middletown Road ( Kraft Farm house), Gradyville Inn on Middletown Road (Townsend’s home) and Edgmont Inn on West Chester Pike (LaLocanda Restaurant).
Farmers on their return from delivering their early morning harvest of milk to the local creamery would stop at the local Howellville General Store (later the Gradyville General Store at the Gradyville Road intersection with Middletown Road) for their morning newspapers, mail and gossip.
Electricity first came to the Gradyville/Edgmont area in 1920.
The major roads in Edgmont were not paved until the mid 1900’s, perhaps 1945.
It is known that beginning in 1848, wooden rails were installed and the West Chester Turnpike Company began running a horsecar line from Philadelphia, eventually connecting with West Chester. By the end of the 1800’s, trolley cars were running the rails, bringing folks to the 33 acre amusement park built on what was known as Castle Rock.
The rocks at Castle Rock in 1899 resounded with music and merriment as people summered in this cool picnic grove on the Crum Creek. Cabins, arts and craft buildings, cottages and a mess hall were built and used continually as the Castle Rock Cottagers’ Association grew in a park like setting. The amusement atmosphere continued until 1963 when the property was sold to a builder and eventually became the Castle Rock Association and full time residential community it is today.
Edgmont Township evolved as a farming area, with both crops and livestock being cultivated. Many large farms were still in existence as late as the 1960s and 1970s, when development began changing the face of the community.
Today there are over one hundred historical buildings in the Ridley Creek State Park.
Edgmont Township Building
1000 Gradyville Road
Gradyville, PA 19039
Phone: (610) 459-1662
Fax: (610) 459-3760