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Independence Hall, Philadelphia
The birthplace of American democracy where the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were debated and adopted.
10 km · about 20 min drive
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Bala Cynwyd
Pennsylvania, United States · North America
About Bala Cynwyd
Bala Cynwyd is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Roxborough, 10km from Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
Bala Cynwyd is in Pennsylvania, United States, with about 9,300 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Roxborough, about 4 km away.
Bala Cynwyd ( BAL-ə KIN-wuud) is a community and census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on the Philadelphia Main Line in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and borders the western edge of Philadelphia at U.S. Route 1 (City Avenue).
The present-day community wasRead more
originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but was united as a single community largely because the U.S. Post Office, the Bala Cynwyd branch, served both towns, later using ZIP Code 19004. The combining of the communities gives a total population of 9,285 as of the 2020 census. The community was long known as hyphenated Bala-Cynwyd. Bala and Cynwyd are currently served by separate stations on SEPTA's Cynwyd Line of Regional Rail.
Bala Cynwyd lies in the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania and was settled in the 1680s by Welsh Quakers, who named it after the town of Bala and the village of Cynwyd in Wales. A mixed residential community made up predominantly of single-family detached homes, it extends west of the Philadelphia city limits represented by City Avenue from Old Lancaster Road at 54th Street west to Meeting House Lane and then along Manayunk and Conshohocken State Roads north to Mary Watersford Road, then east along Belmont Avenue back to City. This large residential district contains some of Lower Merion's oldest and finest stone mansions, built mainly from 1880 through the 1920s and located in the sycamore-lined district between Montgomery Avenue and Levering Mill Road, as well as split level tract houses built east of Manayunk Road just after World War II.
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Within an hour or so of Bala Cynwyd: Independence Hall, Philadelphia (10 km), Liberty Bell (10 km), Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum (11 km).
Where is Bala Cynwyd?
Bala Cynwyd is in Pennsylvania, United States, about 4 km from Roxborough.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 9,299
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 40.0076, -75.2341
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Worth the detour from Bala Cynwyd
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Liberty Bell
Iconic cracked bell in Philadelphia that rang to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
10 km · about 20 min drive
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Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum
One of the world's greatest collections of racing sports cars, with rare vehicles that actually compete in demonstration days.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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