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Oreland, PA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Oreland a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Oreland Home page. The Oreland Home page provides as much information as possible on Oreland. Knowing Oreland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Oreland’s Home page, you will also find Oreland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Oreland has a population of 5838. 48.5% of Oreland’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.5 are female. 59.3% of Oreland is married and 82.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $332,743, and the average rent is $1,051. Household median income in Oreland is $89,861, and the individual median income is $42,975. Oreland’s Ethnic is the following: White(83.5%), Black(8.2%), Hispanic(7%), Multiple(5.6%), Asian(2%), Other(0.7%).
Oreland, as part of Springfield Township, was settled as one of William Penn's manors. In 1686, Thomas Fitzwater discovered vast lime deposits on his land in Oreland. He erected a kiln to process it, which by 1693 had attracted the attention of William Penn. Penn ordered a highway built from the port of the Delaware River to the kiln.
Named Limekiln Pike, and still in existence today, it was one of the first roads in the area. These lime deposits and the ore deposits also found in the area gave Oreland its name. Mining and farming would dominate Oreland's economy until the 20th century, when Oreland transformed into a residential suburb of Philadelphia, as it remains today. The village of Oreland was not laid out until 1889 near the North Penn Railroad running along the east side of town (currently SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown Line).
The Plymouth Railroad ran from Conshohocken to Oreland through Plymouth and Flourtown. The tracks were mostly removed in the 1980s. The path where the trains used to run begins northeast of the Oreland Station Apartments, next to Ehrenpfort Road, and runs southwest towards Flourtown. The actual tracks, which still connect to SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown Line, end near the corner of Montgomery Avenue and Lyster Road.
The path continues all the way to Flourtown, although in the 1990s the path was cut at Oreland Mill Road by housing built on both sides. The remainder of the path today is used primarily by children, runners and bikers. A bronze tablet, installed in 1928, marks where Emlen House is located. Emlen House served as George Washington's headquarters while in neighboring Whitemarsh from November 2 until December 11, 1777 during the Revolutionary War .
In the early 1900s it was owned by Frances and A. J. Antello Devereux and named "Mistfield Farm". In 1956, it was purchased by Edward Piszek, founder of Mrs. Paul's Kitchens, a frozen seafood company. It was in the Piszek family until 2013 when it was sold to a developer. The location of the farm straddles Oreland and Whitemarsh.
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