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Interest is maintained by the active historical society, founded in 1949.

In its six miles from the source in Villanova to its mouth at the Schuylkill it drops 250 feet and once powered sixteen mills and factories.Ī county inventory lists seventy-eight historic and cultural sites in the township. Mill Creek is the largest stream and lies wholly within the township. Most early farms contained one or more springs, many of which are now piped underground. Soils are mainly acid with variable permeability. Soil in most of the township consists of a dark surface layer about eight inches deep with a yellowish brown subsoil ranging from two to eight feet in depth above bedrock. Lower Merion now has forty-seven religious institutions of various faiths actively serving the community. The site of the Lower Merion Baptist Church was donated to the congregation by Charles Thomson, secretary to the Continental Congress, in 1808. The first German-Lutheran church school, erected in 1787, still stands. The meetinghouse and other early buildings, the Owen Roberts house in Wynnewood built in 1695 and the “1690 House” on Mill Creek Road, still stand, as do the house later named Harriton and the General Wayne Inn, both built in 1704.įollowing the Welsh settlers came others of English, German, Irish, and Italian origin. The Merion Friends Meetinghouse they constructed in 1695 is the oldest place of worship in continuous use in Pennsylvania. They named their first settlement Merion, as many had come from Merionethshire. While still in England Penn had sold forty thousand acres to the Welsh Quakers for about ten cents an acre. The original size was reduced to the present 23.34 square miles when West Conshohocken became a borough in 1874 and Narberth in 1895.įirst settlers of what was known as the Welsh Tract arrived in August 1682 aboard the ship Lyon, two months before William Penn.

The township of Lower Merion is bounded by the Schuylkill River, the borough of West Conshohocken, Upper Merion Township, Delaware County, and the city of Philadelphia.