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Wallingford-Swarthmore School District company history timeline

1810

The first school started in 1810.

1854

The first train came to our town in 1854.

1873

The first post office in Nether Providence was established at Hinkson’s Corner in 1873.

1876

In 1876, the name of the train station was changed to Swarthmore.

1878

Swarthmore’s first real estate company was incorporated in 1878 to develop the tract north of the railroad.

1886

In 1886, development companies were established to build homes in several tracts which lay south of the railroad in present-day Swarthmore.

1891

In 1891, the College sold a tract of land bounded by the railroad, Chester Road, Princeton and Harvard Avenues; the College Tract includes the present business district with the exception of the railroad station.

1892

The first independent trolley was the Chester and Media Electric Railway, chartered in 1892.

By end of the 1892, an application for incorporation as a Borough was filed with the State of Pennsylvania.

By 1892, a community with a distinct identity had evolved around the College on the Hill, complete with a post office and train station, schools, churches and real estate companies.

1902

Furness Library was founded in 1902

1931

By 1931, the present boundaries of Swarthmore were established with the annexation of the area south of Bowdoin and north of Michigan and Fairview Avenues.

1935

The Police Department was established in 1935.

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