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Kennett Township Spring Cleanup!

Kennett Township’s Spring Cleanup will be held on Saturday, March 28th from 8 am-12 pm. This event is in coordination with the Red Clay Valley Clean up event. Read on...
Paper Shredding and Drug Take-Back Event

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Chester County Household Hazardous Waste Events

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Chester County Household Hazardous Waste Events

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Certified Master Composter Classes

For more information or to register, please call 484-796-4041
Recycling Video!

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Township Calendar

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Tue Mar. 3

Trails and Sidewalk Committee Meeting
Tue Mar. 3

Planning Commission Meeting
Wed Mar. 4

Board Of Supervisors Public Meeting
Tue Mar. 10

Emergency Services Commission-Public Meeting (held at Pennsbury Township)
Wed Mar. 11

Planning Commission Work Session

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History of Kennett Township

Kennett Township figured prominently in our nation's military history. During the Revolution, British soldiers and Hessian mercenaries passed through on their way to Chadds Ford.

Learn more about the War of 1812, the Civil War and how these historical events impacted the early days of Kennett Township.

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The Pines/Fussell House

In the years leading up to the Civil War, The Kennett Square area was known as “the hotbed of abolitionism” due to the help many local resident gave to fugitive slaves. These Underground Railroad “stationmasters” provided shelter in their homes, called “stations,” and then secretly moved them along to another station, enroute north or west, to freedom. One of the most prominent of these stationmasters was Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, whose house still stands at the intersection of Baltimore Pike and McFarlan Road in Kennett Township, just outside of the Borough of Kennett Square, minutes from Longwood Gardens.

Some 2000 fugitive slaves passed through Fusssell’s house, “The Pines” and nearly every distinguished abolitionist to come to Kennett Square was entertained there at one time or another. It is one of the most historic of the more than three dozen Underground Railroad house in the Kennett Square area, the largest concentration of URR houses in an 8 mile radius in the country and the “hub of the Underground Railroad.”

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