Dr. George Smith
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N 39° 57.082 W 075° 19.268
18S E 472568 N 4422408
Good luck finding this sign! It down a lane that looks like someone private driveway!
Waymark Code: WM8JKW
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2010
Views: 4
Marker Text: A doctor, judge, scientist, and State Senator, Smith came to Collenbrook in 1829 upon his marriage to Mary Lewis, heir to this eighteenth-century family estate. He was a founder of the Delaware County Institute of Science and author of the 1862 "History of Delaware County." While a Senator, as chairman of the Education Committee, he drafted the 1836 law providing for this State's first public school code
Marker Name: Dr. George Smith
County: Delaware
Date Dedicated: 10/25/1985
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Off Marvine Ave. at Mansion Dr. on Collenbrook property, Drexel Hill
Category: Education, Government & Politics, Government & Politics 19th Century, Medicine & Science, Professions & Vocations
Website: [Web Link]
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