Booths Corner, Pennsylvania

Booths Corner, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
The Booth Farm, built 1819
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Coordinates: 39°50′21″N75°29′39″W / 39.83917°N 75.49417°W / 39.83917; -75.49417
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Delaware
Township	Bethel
Elevation	387 ft (118 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	610 and 484
GNIS feature ID	1170001 [1]

Booths Corner is an unincorporated community in Bethel Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Booths Corner is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 261 (Foulk Road) and Pennsylvania Route 491 (Naamans Creek Road). ^[2]

Booths Corner is named after Thomas Booth, who became a merchant in the village in 1854 and served as postmaster. ^[3] The Booth family in Bethel can be traced back to Robert Booth who emigrated to Pennsylvania from Yorkshire, England in 1712. ^[4]

Notable people

Francis Harvey Green - educator, poet and lecturer

References

1. "Booths Corner". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. "Delaware County, Pennsylvania Highway Map" (PDF). PennDOT (FTP). 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2013.^{[dead ftp link]}(To view documents see Help:FTP)
3. Ashmead, Henry (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. L.H. Everts & Co. p. 311. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
4. Goodley, George Walter (1987). Bethel Township Delaware County, Pennsylvania Thru Three Centuries. p. 90.