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Welcome
to the website of the Newtown Square Historical
Preservation Society (NSHPS).
The mission of
Newtown Square Historical Preservation Society is to
search out, acquire, and preserve all buildings,
documents, artifacts, and other memorabilia relevant to
the history of Newtown Township.
Learn
more about the
Society...
We
invite you learn more about the
rich history of Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania (Delaware County). Newtown Square is
located approximately 15
miles west of center city Philadelphia.
William
Penn laid out the "Townstead" plot three years prior to the
township's incorporation in 1684. It was a central plot
or square located at the intersection of Newtown Street
and Goshen Roads, which was considered to be the
township's center. The original settlers, being mostly
Welshmen, were members of the Society of Friends, or
Quakers. From a few scattered dwellings and farms in the
pre-Revolutionary days, Newtown Township has slowly
emerged as a modern, high-level socio-economic suburban
community with a viable population of some 16,000
individuals.
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