Drexel Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) mostly located in Upper Darby, with a small section (Pilgrim Gardens) located in Haverford Township Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA. Drexel Hill is located 7 miles (11 km) west of Center City, Philadelphia, and is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The population was 28,043 at the 2010 census, down from 29,364 in the 2000 census.
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Geography
Drexel Hill is located in the western part of Upper Darby Township on 39Ã, Â ° 57? 00? N 75 Â ° 18? 7? W (39.949962, -75.301841). The CDP is bordered to the north by Haverford Township, to the east by Kirklyn, Highland Park, Beverly Hills, and Bywood Upper Darby neighborhoods, southeast of the Lansdowne area, south by the Clifton Heights and Westbrook Park neighborhoods in Upper Darby, and to the west power by Springfield Township. Darby Creek forms the southwest/south boundary of CDP. Route 1 US (City Line Road) runs through the northwest corner of CDP and forms most of the northern border with Haverford Township.
CDP has a total area of ​​3.2 square miles (8.3 km 2 ), all land.
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Historical site
The Lower Swedish cabin on Creek Avenue alongside Darby Creek is probably the oldest wooden house in North America. The cabin is believed to have been built by early Swedish settlers who were part of the New Sweden colony. The cabin was most likely built between 1638 and 1655, but the exact year is unknown. Log cabin architecture is a major contribution of the Swedish colonial. European settlers from other countries mimic this style of housing, and wooden huts are becoming popular throughout America.
Collen Brook Farm is a historic house and associated building located just down the street from Mansion Road on Marvine Avenue in Drexel Hill. The original house and warehouse was built around 1710 by Abraham Lewis. It was recently acquired by Upper Darby Township in 1989. It is open to the public on Sundays from May to October.
Thornfield, the famous abolitionist plantation and Quaker Thomas Garrett, is located on Garrett Road (named for his family, one of the earliest settlers in the township) and Maple Avenue on Drexel Hill. Garrett lived here before 1822 and then worked as station chief in Wilmington, Delaware, the last stop on the Underground Railroad. In 1956, Thornfield plantations were purchased by Caroline and Walter Isard, Quaker activists who moved into the area when Walter founded the Regional Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. Caroline went on to find the Philadelphia Suburban Justice Real Estate Council along with other concerned citizens in the area. In 2014, the plantation is owned by Randi T. Rioux. It is currently undergoing recovery, along with the necessary renovations to maintain its history and enable modern capabilities.
Demographics
In the 2010 census, Drexel Hill's racial makeup was White, 87.06%; Black or African American, 5.45%; American Indians and Alaskan Natives, 0.11%; Asia, 5.31%; Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islands, 0.05%; and others, 2.02%.
The largest ethnic group in Drexel Hill is Ireland (41.8%), Italy (24.5%), Germany (16.7%), United Kingdom (9.9%), Poland (4.2%), 2.8%), Hispanic (2.16%).
There were 11,896 households, of which 29.9% had children under 18 living with them, 49.6% were married couples living together, 9.9% had non-husbands female households, and 36.9% % is not family. 32.0% of all households are individual, and 13.0% have a person who lives alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.19.
In the CDP, the population was distributed with 24.3% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 32.4% from 25 to 44, 20.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% years or older. The average age is 37 years. For every 100 women, there are 90.2 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 86.4 men.
The average income for households in the CDP is $ 48,765, and the average income for families is $ 65,862. Men have an average income of $ 42,841 versus $ 31,904 for women. The per capita income for CDP is $ 25,471. About 3.5% of families and 4.9% of the population are below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under the age of 18 and 6.0% of those aged 65 and older.
Transportation
SEPTA
SEPTA operates two suburban trolley lines via Drexel Hill: Route 101 - several stops on Drexel Hill are Irvington Rd, Drexel Hill Junction, School Line, Aronimink, Drexelbrook, Drexel Park, Garrettford, Huey Road, School Line, Anderson Avenue, Drexeline, Drexel Manor, Marshall Road, and Creek Road, station to Media and Route 102 Sharon Hill. Several bus lines also operate through Drexel Hill, including routes 107, 110, 111, 115 and 122.
Main road
The main road through Drexel Hill is Township Line Road (US 1), State Road, Burmont Road, Garrett Road, Lansdowne Avenue, Marshall Road, Drexel Avenue, Edmonds Avenue, and Shadeland Avenue.
Education
Public school
- Bukit Drexel High School
- Aronimink Elementary School
- Garretford Elementary School
- Charles Kelly Elementary School
- Hillcrest Elementary School
- Upper Darby Kindergarten Center
- Upper Darby High School
Parish School
- Monsignor Bonner High School for boys
- Archbishop Prendergast High School for women
- Saint Andrew Apostle School
- Saint Bernadette School
- Saint Dorothy School
Saint Alice Elementary School is located in Upper Darby instead of Drexel Hill. (School closed in 2008, but the parish remained open. Victor Taylor was a student at Saint Alice from 1974 to 1982.)
Private schools
- Holy Child Academy
Emergency services
Drexel Hill is served by the Darby Top Police Department, Crozer-Keystone Paramedics (based in Delaware County Memorial Hospital), and Upper Darby Township Fire Department, a combined/paid joint/volunteer department consisting of five stations:
- The 20 - Garrettford-Drexel Hill Company (which is the only full-time volunteer station), accommodates three pumpers (engine), one ladder truck, and one rescue truck.
- Company 26 - Highland Park, housing two pumps, one ladder truck, and one rescue truck.
- Company 36 - Cardington-Stonehurst, one oil well housing, one squrt, one ladder truck, and one air/light unit.
- Company 37 - Upper Darby, one pumper housing, one quint, and one utility truck.
- Company 74 - Primos-Secane-Westbrook Park, accommodates two pumpers (including foam pumps) and one tower ladder truck.
Companies 26, 36, 37 and 74 are staffed from 7 am Monday morning to 7 am Saturday morning by career personnel from IAFF Local 2493. They are completed by volunteers during weekdays and fully staffed by volunteers on weekends.
Famous people
Dick Clark's television personality settled here from 1954 to 1956 in the Drexelbrook Apartment complex before moving to Wallingford, while hosting the Barr's Diamond Theater and radio show at WFIL, before being chosen to host American Bandstand. Television personality Ed McMahon also lives in Drexelbrook, as Dick Clark's neighbor, before working with Johnny Carson on Do You Trust Your Wife? , then The Tonight Show . The famous children's author, Lloyd Alexander, also lives in Drexel Hill with his wife and several cats.
In the 1970s folk/pop singer/songwriter, Jim Croce grew up in Bywood and Drexel Hill in Upper Darby. She graduated from Upper Darby Sr. High in 1960, and studied at Villanova University from 1961 to 1965. He married Ingrid Jacobson of Wallingford. His family is believed to have bought Dick Clark's house for sale on his way to the west coast when Bandstand left WFIL in the early 60's. Croce's career was cut short in a Louisiana plane crash on September 20, 1973, after a concert at Northwestern State University. Croce was the first to be inducted in the "Wall of Fame" at Darby High School in April 1976.
United States representative Pat Meehan from the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania is a resident of Drexel Hill.
Alan Graham MacDiarmid ONZ (April 14, 1927 - February 7, 2007) was a chemist, and one of three Nobel Prize recipients of Chemistry in 2000. In early February 2007, at the age of 79, he fell down the stairs at his home in Drexel Hill. She died on February 7, 2007. She is buried at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill.
Further reading
- Drexel Hill in city-data.com
References
External links
- Upper Darby City
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