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Southside Baptist Church Southside Baptist Church
Folcroft Municipal Building Folcroft Municipal Building -
Borough of Folcroft
Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial
Primos Avenue & Elmwood Avenue
Folcroft Union Church Folcroft Union Church
Folcroft Fire Company Folcroft Fire Company
Clock Tower at the Folcroft Library Clock Tower at the Folcroft Library
Delaware County Technical High School Delaware County Technical High School
Delmar Drive Delmar Drive
Delcroft Center Delcroft Center
 



Folcroft
History

  
   The property of Folcroft was originally part of a 350 acre land grant given to Obadiah Bonsall by William Penn. Bonsall rented the property to Thomas Tatnall in 1725. Then him and his wife bought the property. Tatnall added 150 acres to the property, but eventually he died and left the property to Elizabeth, his only child. She married John Knowles and he inherited the property when she died around 1775. Knowles kept adding to the property and it was over 650 acres by 1776. He was the largest land owner in the area back then. In 1778, Knowles died and his will said that his three children, James, John & Hannah, take the land he owned in Berks County. In 1783, when the American Revolution was over, the three children divided the estate. Hannah got 160 acres and married Joseph Shallcross. In 1788, they built the house called Poplar Hall at Shallcross Avenue in what is today Folcroft.

 
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