Booths Corner, Pennsylvania
Booths Corner, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
  Booths Corner | |
| Coordinates: 39°50′21″N 75°29′39″W / 39.83917°N 75.49417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Delaware |
| Township | Bethel |
| Elevation | 387 ft (118 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Area code(s) | 610 and 484 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1170001[1] |
Booths Corner is an unincorporated community in Bethel Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Booths Corner is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 261 (Foulk Road) and Pennsylvania Route 491 (Naaman's Creek Road).[2]
Booths Corner is named after Thomas Booth, who became a merchant in the village in 1854 and served as postmaster.[3] The Booth family in Bethel can be traced back to Robert Booth who emigrated to Pennsylvania from Yorkshire, England in 1712.[4]
Notable people
Francis Harvey Green - educator, poet and lecturer
References
- ^ "Booths Corner". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Delaware County, Pennsylvania Highway Map (PDF) (Map). PennDOT. 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Ashmead, Henry (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. L.H. Everts & Co. p. 311. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Goodley, George Walter (1987). Bethel Township Delaware County, Pennsylvania Thru Three Centuries. p. 90.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |