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Plymouth
Meeting
History
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Laid out by William Penn in 1686, Plymouth Township is 98 years
older than Montgomery County, which was established in 1784. Members of the
"Society of Friends", or Quakers originally settled the township. They
sailed over from Devonshire, England. The township got its name from their
hometown of Plymouth in Devonshire. What is today Germantown Pike was laid
out in 1687 as a "cart road" from Philadelphia to Plymouth Meeting. This
road was not exactly finished until 1804. A road from Plymouth Meeting to
Gwynedd was built in 1751. What is today called Chemical
Road, following Plymouth Creek, was opened in 1759 to give access to
a new grist mill.
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