This crossroads community was renamed for the post office established to honor John Martin Broomall, a 19th-century U.S. congressman, Electoral College member (at Ulysses S. Grant's 1872 presidential election), and Chester Gas Company president from Upper Chichester Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Broomall is home to the biotechnology company Drummond Scientific Company. Drummond's Pipet-Aid pipette controller, released in 1972, improved accuracy and pipetting capabilities in laboratories.
The Thomas Massey House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The area of the works is embraced in the limits of two hundred and two feet on Broomall Street, and two hundred and eighty-five feet on the line of the railroad. The building is of L shape, has a frontage on Broomall Street of one hundred and thirty-two feet, and to the same extent is parallel with the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and in the narrowest part fifty feet wide. As it is divided, we
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tions halted at the meeting-house, and in mere wantonness shot repeatedly at the closed doors, the marks of the bullet-holes being readily seen in the front door to this day. Nehemiah Broomall, for many years sexton of the meeting-house, used to relate how the British army, on its way from the Brandywine to Philadelphia, encamped near the old meeting-house, and on that occasion the soldiers were permitted to discharge
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A history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and its people1914 · page 1069Read the page →
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ment of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1897. He at once engaged in active practice in the town of Dublin, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three years, then moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, locating in Broomall, where he remained for four years, and in the spring of 1905 moved to Llanerch, his present residence. His practice has been of a general character, and his patronage has increased with each passing year, he having won prestige as one of the most successful and able physicians in that section of Delaware county,
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Broomall, 1931 to 1992
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