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Birmingham Friends' Meeting House - PLAQUE

Birmingham Friends' Meeting House - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Chester County, dedicated 1915.

Wall of Meetinghouse, Birmingham Rd. (SR 2001), .5 mile SE of W Street Rd. (PA 926), West Chester

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Erected in 1783. Used as a hospital after the Battle of Brandywine September 11, 1777.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1778 · Battle of Brandywine in which the rebels were defeated (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1795 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1796 · Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Delaware, 1795, covering the location of Birmingham Friends' Meeting House - PLAQUE, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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