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Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States
Booths Corner, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°50′21″N 75°29′39″W / 39.83917°N 75.49417°W / 39.83917; -75.49417
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyDelaware
TownshipBethel
Elevation387 ft (118 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)610 and 484
GNIS feature ID1170001
The Booth Farm built in 1819 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Booths Corner is an unincorporated community in Bethel Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Booths Corner is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 261 (Foulk Road) and Pennsylvania Route 491 (Naamans Creek Road).

Booths Corner is named after Thomas Booth, who became a merchant in the village in 1854 and served as postmaster. The Booth family in Bethel can be traced back to Robert Booth who emigrated to Pennsylvania from Yorkshire, England in 1712.

Notable people

Francis Harvey Green - educator, poet and lecturer

References

  1. "Booths Corner". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Delaware County, Pennsylvania Highway Map (PDF) (Map). PennDOT. 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
  3. Ashmead, Henry (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. L.H. Everts & Co. p. 311. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  4. Goodley, George Walter (1987). Bethel Township Delaware County, Pennsylvania Thru Three Centuries. p. 90.
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