1894 Map of Chester

About this map

Media and Swarthmore serve as central hubs in this late nineteenth-century survey of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey borderlands. The landscape is defined by the industrial activity along the tributaries of the Delaware River, where numerous operations like Sycamore Mills, Lenni Mills, and Ivy Mills were established near the winding paths of Crum Creek and Darby Creek. The area shows a transition from the agricultural roots of Newtown Square and Edgemont toward the suburban growth near Lansdowne and Upper Darby.