Swarthmore

Worth seeing in and around Swarthmore

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Swarthmore College

   Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.

   700 m · liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sproul Observatory

   Sproul Observatory was an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Swarthmore College. It was located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States, and named after William Cameron Sproul, the 27th Governor of Pennsylvania, who graduated from Swarthmore in 1891.

   700 m · observatory in Pennsylvania, United States (1913–2017) · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Woodland Avenue

   Woodland Avenue station is a stop on the D in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is officially located on Woodland Avenue and Rolling Road, though Rolling Road is actually a block north of the tracks.

   2.6 km · SEPTA light rail stop in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

   Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is a private junior college and technical school in Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Media. The college, which typically enrolls between 450 and 850 students, is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

   3.7 km · independent junior college in Media and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Crum Lynne

   Crum Lynne station is a station on the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line. Though the station sits along the Northeast Corridor, it is not served by any Amtrak intercity services.

   3.6 km · SEPTA station in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Scott Arboretum

   Scott Arboretum is a 357 acres arboretum coterminous with the campus of and operated by Swarthmore College. It is open to the public daily without charge.

   700 m · arboretum at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Benjamin West Birthplace

   The Benjamin West Birthplace, also known as Benjamin West House, is a historic home located on the campus of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was the birthplace of artist Benjamin West, who was an influential mentor to a generation of American painters, including Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale.

   500 m · historic house in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Taylor Memorial Arboretum

   The Taylor Memorial Arboretum is a thirty-acre arboretum and garden that is located at 10 Ridley Drive, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, United States, along Ridley Creek. Open daily, the arboretum has been administrated by Widener University since May 2016.

   3.8 km · arboretum and garden in Wallingford, Pennsylavnia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Idlewild

   Idlewild is a historic building near Media, Pennsylvania, designed by the Victorian-era Philadelphia architect Frank Furness as a summer cottage for his family. He spent summers there until his death in 1912.

   3.8 km · house in Media, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Chester Friends Meetinghouse

    Chester Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house at 520 East 24th Street in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The first recorded meeting of Friends in the province of Pennsylvania was in Chester at the house of Robert Wade in 1675.

    3.9 km · quaker meeting house in Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Swarthmore

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Philadelphia (PHL), 10 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 133 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 139 km

Stations

Norwood, 4 km

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