Yeadon, Pennsylvania
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Yeadon is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It borders the city of Philadelphia. As of the 2020 census, Yeadon had a population of 12,054.
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US 13 southbound in Yeadon
New Sweden
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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
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
…According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Yeadon has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), all land. Yeadon and its surrounding land were once part of New Sweden. Yeadon was then known as the Swedish settlement of Mölndal (founded in 1645). The borough of Yeadon took its name from Yeadon Manor, which takes its…
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).