school district of springfield township, paper mill road, oreland, montgomery county, pa

The tracks were mostly removed in the 1980s.

The Plymouth Railroad ran from Conshohocken to Oreland through Plymouth and Flourtown.

The village of Oreland was not laid out until 1889 near the North Penn Railroad running along the east side of town (currently SEPTA's Lansdale/ Doylestown Line). Mining and farming would dominate Oreland's economy until the 20th century, when Oreland transformed into a residential suburb of Philadelphia, as it remains today. These lime deposits and the ore deposits also found in the area gave Oreland its name. Named Limekiln Pike, and still in existence today, it was one of the first roads in the area. Penn ordered a highway built from the port of the Delaware River to the kiln. He erected a kiln to process it, which by 1693 had attracted the attention of William Penn. In 1686, Thomas Fitzwater discovered vast lime deposits on his land in Oreland. Oreland, as part of Springfield Township, was settled as one of William Penn's manors. Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), all land. Oreland has a ZIP code of 19075, and the population was 5,678 at the 2010 census. Oreland is a United States census-designated place (CDP) in Springfield and Upper Dublin townships, just outside the Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy areas of Philadelphia.

School district of springfield township, paper mill road, oreland, montgomery county, pa