Tinicum Township, also known as Tinicum Island or The Island, is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,091 at the 2010 census, down from 4,353 at the 2000 ce
The Philadelphia Lazaretto, November 2009
I-95 southbound in Tinicum Township
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New Sweden was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during th
Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
…European settlement in Pennsylvania. Fort Nya Gothenborg, located on the South River, was settled by colonial Swedes in 1643. It served as capital of the New Sweden colony, under the rule of Royal Governor Johan Björnsson Printz. Governor Printz built his manor house, The Printzhof, on Tinicum Island, from which…
The C. A. Nothnagle Log House in Gibbstown, New Jersey, built in 1638 in New Sweden, is the oldest house in New Jersey.
A U.S. Postal stamp commemorating the founding of Wilmington, Delaware, once part of New Sweden (1938)
Old Swedes Church, built in the era of New Sweden, in Swedesburg, Pennsylvania
Little Catechism of Martin Luther translated into local Native American languages by Swede Johannes Campanius (from 1696).