Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

United States

Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania carries 41 connections with 8893 other places across 13 topics, with transportation and history the dominant themes. Railroad lines through the area were acquired by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1870 and later rebuilt to Oreland; rail service ended in the 1970s and the track-bed is now the Schuylkill River Trail. Continental Army forces camped near the local meetinghouse the night before the Battle of Barren Hill, with General George Washington then posted at Valley Forge. The settlement takes its name from Plymouth in Devon.