Plymouth Historical Historical District is a national historic district that links Plymouth and Whitemarsh Cities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The nearby Cold Point Historical District lies to the north.
The district covers 200 acres (81 ha) and includes 56 buildings that contribute to the historic core of the Plymouth Meeting. Among these are the Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse (1708) which are listed separately; Hinterleiter House ( c. 1714); Livezey House and Store ( c. 1740-1788); Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall ( c. 1795, 1856); and the Plymouth Meeting Country Store and Post Office ( c. 1827).
This district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Plymouth Meeting House is the name of a village located at the intersection of Plymouth and Perkiomen highways, on the township. On the [Plymouth] side this is a meeting house, a school house and four houses; and at Whitemarsh two stores, a blacksmith and a wheelmaker, a post office and twenty-four houses. The houses in this village are mainly located along the Perkiomen or Reading streets, almost adjacent to each other, and made of stone, clean white, with a shaded courtyard out front, present to strangers, a pleasant appearance. In the basement of the Methodist Library building a worship service. This is an ancient settlement, whose history begins almost until the arrival of William Penn, and is marked as a village on the map of Lewis Evans in 1749. The post office was established here before 1827. In 1832 there were only ten houses here. - History of Montgomery County (1858).
Contributing properties (alphabetically by path)
Video Plymouth Meeting Historic District
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