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Upper Providence Township
History Of Upper Providence Township:
From the Media By-pass that divides Upper Providence Township, passengers see a little beyond the trees that buffer homes from the hum of rushing traffic.
The narrow stretch of land between two rushing waters, now called Ridley and Crum Creeks, yielded all the natives needed for food and home. It was an open and free land.
Three-hundred years ago, early settlers, Swedes and Welsh came seeking the same life as the Lenni-Lenapes - peace, freedom, and a place to celebrate their culture, to worship their God. Leaders including William Penn and George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, found a place to build new lives in an open society under the "Providence God". Soon they established the concept of land ownership with its legal requirements: road building, courts and taxes. Without a system of currency, land was money and money was land.
From the Media By-pass that divides Upper Providence Township, passengers see a little beyond the trees that buffer homes from the hum of rushing traffic.
The narrow stretch of land between two rushing waters, now called Ridley and Crum Creeks, yielded all the natives needed for food and home. It was an open and free land.
Three-hundred years ago, early settlers, Swedes and Welsh came seeking the same life as the Lenni-Lenapes - peace, freedom, and a place to celebrate their culture, to worship their God. Leaders including William Penn and George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, found a place to build new lives in an open society under the "Providence God". Soon they established the concept of land ownership with its legal requirements: road building, courts and taxes. Without a system of currency, land was money and money was land.