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Fitzwatertown, Pennsylvania

Coordinates: 40°07′30.52″N 75°09′54.22″W / 40.1251444°N 75.1650611°W / 40.1251444; -75.1650611
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Fitzwatertown
Fitzwatertown is located in Pennsylvania
Fitzwatertown
Fitzwatertown
Location of Fitzwatertown in Pennsylvania
Fitzwatertown is located in the United States
Fitzwatertown
Fitzwatertown
Fitzwatertown (the United States)
Coordinates: 40°07′30.52″N 75°09′54.22″W / 40.1251444°N 75.1650611°W / 40.1251444; -75.1650611
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyMontgomery
TownshipUpper Dublin
Elevation
222 ft (68 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area codes215, 267 and 445

Fitzwatertown is an unincorporated community located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The community is in Upper Dublin Township, 2.13 miles (3.43 km) south of Jarrettown, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of Abington, 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Oreland and approximately 12.3 miles (19.8 km) north of Philadelphia.

Fitzwatertown is located at the intersection of Limekiln Pike, Fitzwatertown Road and Jenkintown Road.

In about 1869, Irish emigrant Michael Carolan, of Drumbaragh, County Meath, moved a mile east of Fitzwatertown village to work as a blacksmith in the village or on the farm of Garrett Hendrick, just north Susquehanna Avenue and the lime kilns of Mrs. E. Tyson.[1] He married Annie Larner, also born in Ireland, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jenkintown, in August that year.[2] They began a family that would result in 17 children, six of whom survived into adulthood. By 1880, they were living in Dreshertown, where Michael had purchased a small plot for his blacksmith shop on Limekiln Pike near the Haupt general store.

Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania describes Fitzwatertown as follows:

Fitzwatertown is situated in the southern part of the township, on the Limekiln turnpike, in the midst of the fertile valley of Sandy Run, abounding in limestone and iron-ore. This is an old settlement where Thomas Fitzwater followed lime-burning before the summer of 1705 and had a grist-mill erected at an early period. It contains a store hotel, wheel-wright and blacksmith-shop, grist-mill and about twelve house. The post-office was established here before 1858. The value of lime produced in Upper Dublin for 1840 was stated to be twenty thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars, which was all produced in this vicinity, but the business has since been greatly increased through railroad facilities. Edge Hill Station, of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, is only a mile distant; yet, with all its surpassing advantages, as may be observed, has made but very little progress for the last half-century. The grist-mill mentioned was long carried on by John Price and is now, owned by Samuel Conard. Sandy Run is a steady stream rising at the Moreland line, about three miles distant.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Atlas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1871 Compiled & Published by G.M. Hopkins & Company
  2. ^ Birth records, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
  3. ^ Buck, Wm. J. (1884). Theodore W. Bean (ed.). History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Evert & Pecks. p. 1095. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
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