Broomall, PA

BROOMALL, PA is a Post Office which covers the Northern two-thirds of of Marple Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was named after John Martin Broomall 1st, the Broomall family's most prominent member- attorney, Judge, Congressman, and civil rights advocate. A few years ago Marple Township restored the road sign. (right) It currently stands outside the Marple Township Building, next to our flagpole.

Photo courtesy of Robert Jordan, Marple Commissioner

From Ashmead's History of Delaware County (1884), under Marple Township, page 581: "At the present post-village of Broomall, in 1798, a stone dwelling was built by Hugh and Rebecca Lownes, the date stone being built into the the walls of the house. It was licensed in October, 1800 as the Drove Tavern, David Reed being the first landlord. About 1832, a store was established at the cross-roads by Isaac Haldeman. In 1868 a post office was established and named Broomall, in honor of John M. Broomall, the then member of from the Seventh Congressional District. George Esrey was the first postmaster, and has been succeeded by Bernard Hawley, Garrett Williamson, Samuel Moore and Philip Moore, Jr., the present incumbent. Prior to that (before 1742), at Springfield meeting-house was a small settlement known as Marple Post-office, on the line of Marple and Springfield townships."