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Style of the times, and during the summer months, it was not 

 unfrequcntly the scene of elegant and luxurious entertainments. 



The late Dr. Charles Caldwell, who afterwards hecame a Pro- 

 fessor in a Medical College of Kentucky, was then a young man 

 and resided in Philadelphia. During part of the period men- 

 tioned he was a visitor at the Grange, and being struck with the 

 many heauties of the place, wrote a short rural poem on tiie sub- 

 ject, which is given entire in the Appendix, Note M.' 



Though the (lermaTi Lutheran Ciiurch, well known as the 

 "Dutch Church," stands ;i little beyond the Ilaverford line in 

 Lower Merion, still a number of ohl families in our County feel 

 sufficient interest in it to justify a short notice. Prior to 1765, 

 a number of German families had settled in Merion and Haver- 

 ford, and about that year there is evidence of the formation of 

 a Lutheran congregation. After various efforts, a piece of land 

 was secured and a log church erected. In 1800, a second church 

 edifice was built, which was of stone. This, in its turn, gave 

 place to the present building, which was erected in 1833. No 

 doubt the services in this church, in early times, were conducted 

 in the German language. 



Owing to the large number of immigrant foreigners professing 

 the Catholic faith, employed in the manufacturing establishments 

 of Cobb's Creek, erected by Dennis Kelly, a church became ne- 

 cessary for their accommodation. For this purpose the Church 

 of St. Dennis was erected in 1825. It was the first Catholic 

 Church edifice built in Delaware County. 



The Methodists have a church in Haverford called BetJiesda, 

 erected about thirty years since, and the Friends a meeting- 

 house near the Haverford College, which answers for the accom- 

 modation of the professors and pupils of that Institution as well 

 as other persons in the neighborhood. 



RADNOR. 



After Merion and Haverford, Radnor was the next Welsh 

 township settled. There is no documentary evidence of any set- 

 tlement having been made in Radnor earlier than 1685, though 

 the fact that the certificates of several of the first Quaker settlers 

 of that township are dated early in 1683, it is very probable that 

 settlements were made there in 1684. Some of the earliest immi- 

 grants who located in that township were from Radnorshire in 

 Wales ; hence the name of the township, 



A Welsh gentleman, named Richard David, or Davies, in 1681, 

 purchased 5000 acres of land from William Penn in England, which 



1 The manuscript copy of the poem was kindly furnished by the venerable Samuel 

 Breck, Esq., who was the son-iu-law of Johu Ross. 



