Waverly Township, Pennsylvania

Waverly Township, United States

Waverly Township, Pennsylvania shares 10 connections with 519 other places across 2 topics, rooted primarily in literary naming history. In 1854, the borough was incorporated as Waverly, named after Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. That naming links it to dozens of other places worldwide with the same origin, including Waverley, Johannesburg and Waverly, New York. A separate rename, made to avoid confusion with another Abington near Philadelphia, accounts for its nature-topic connections.