Radnor Township near Villanova in Delaware County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Radnor Meeting House

Photographed by Don Morfe, March 10, 2015

1. Radnor Meeting House Marker

Inscription. A center of Friends' activities since 1686. The second house, built about 1721, served as an officers' house and a hospital for Valley Forge encampment.

Erected by Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Charity & Public Work • Colonial Era • Religion & Religious Structures. In addition, it is included in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), and the Quakerism series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1686.

Location. 40° 1.821′ N, 75° 21.841′ W. Marker is near Villanova, Pennsylvania, in Delaware County. It is in Radnor Township. It is on Conestoga Road just west of Pennsylvania Route 320. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 635 Conestoga Rd, Villanova PA 19085, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Radnor Friends Meeting House (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Center for Engineering Education and Research - 1997 (approx. 1.1 miles away); Tolentine Hall - 1899 (approx. 1.1 miles away); Metasequoia Glyptostroboides or Dawn Redwood (approx. 1.1 miles away); a different marker also named Tolentine Hall - 1899

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(approx. 1.1 miles away); St. Thomas Hall - 1899 (approx. 1.1 miles away); St. Thomas of Villanova Monastery - Augustinian Residence (approx. 1.1 miles away); Chemical Engineering (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Villanova.

Photographed by Don Morfe, March 10, 2015

2. Radnor Meeting House Marker

Radnor Meeting House image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Don Morfe, March 10, 2015

3. Radnor Meeting House

Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on March 14, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 544 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on March 14, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.