Editing Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Entrance Bryn Mawr.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Bryn Mawr College]]]]
Bryn Mawr is named after an [[Estate (land)|estate]] near [[Dolgellau]] in [[Wales]] that belonged to [[Rowland Ellis]], a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Quaker]] who emigrated in 1686 to Pennsylvania to escape [[religious persecution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/history/pages/quakers.shtml|title=The Quakers of Dolgellau|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=May 5, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061108174604/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/history/pages/quakers.shtml|archive-date=November 8, 2006|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://snowdonia-npa.gov.uk/page/index.php?nav1=enjoying&nav2=9&nav3=6&lang=eng&view=graphic&contrast=1|title=Snowdonia National Park Authority|access-date=April 18, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928060522/http://snowdonia-npa.gov.uk/page/index.php?nav1=enjoying&nav2=9&nav3=6&lang=eng&view=graphic&contrast=1|archive-date=September 28, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Until the construction of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]'s [[Philadelphia Main Line|Main Line]] in 1869, the town, located in the old [[Welsh Tract]], was known as Humphreysville, named for early settlers of the Humphreys family.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Perry |last2=Sutton |first2=Adam |title=A Brief History of Lower Merion Township |url=http://lowermerionhistory.org/?page_id=228 |website=The Lower Merion Historical Society |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref> The town was renamed by railroad agent William H. Wilson after he acquired on behalf of the railroad the {{convert|283|acre|km2}} that now compose Bryn Mawr.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maier |first1=Phyllis |title=Lower Merion: Bryn Mawr |url=https://lowermerionhistory.org/?page_id=250 |website=The Lower Merion Historical Society |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref>

To encourage visitors the railroad constructed the Bryn Mawr Hotel adjacent to the new station, which opened in 1872. After a fire destroyed the original building, a distinctive new hotel designed by architect [[Frank Furness]] was built in 1889.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Senker |first1=Gerry |title=In 1890 Frank Furness Designed The Bryn Mawr Hotel, Which Became Baldwin School |url=https://thisislowermerion.com/in-1890-frank-furness-designed-the-bryn-mawr-hotel-which-became-baldwin-school/ |website=This is Lower Merion and Narberth |access-date=6 April 2023 |date=20 January 2022}}</ref> The second hotel building is currently occupied by [[The Baldwin School]] and was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1979.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

[[Bryn Mawr College]] was founded in 1885 originally as a [[Quaker]] institution but by 1893, it had become non-denominational.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/about/history|title=History {{!}} Bryn Mawr College|website=www.brynmawr.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-01}}</ref>

In 1893, the first hospital, [[Bryn Mawr Hospital]], was built on the Main Line by Dr. George Gerhard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://brynmawrpa.org/BrynMawr100/16_brnmwr100_brnmwrhospi.html|title=Bryn Mawr Hospital, founded 1893 • A Brief History|website=brynmawrpa.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817001016/http://brynmawrpa.org/BrynMawr100/16_brnmwr100_brnmwrhospi.html|archive-date=August 17, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-03-11|quote=In 1892 the country was staggering under an economic depression and on the verge of financial collapse, but the desire of Dr. George Gerhard, an Ardmore physician, to build a hospital in the growing suburbs of Philadelphia ... When the Hospital opened in 1893, Dr. George Gerhard and Dr. Robert Gamble were in charge of the public needs.|df=mdy-all}}</ref>  [[Glenays]], a historic home dating to 1859, was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1977.<ref name="nris"/>

In the [[1990 U.S. Census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st42_Pennsylvania/42091_Montgomery/90B42091_000.pdf|title=1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): MONTGOMERY County|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|page=[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st42_Pennsylvania/42091_Montgomery/90B42091_066.pdf 66]|access-date=2024-08-09}}</ref> the [[2000 U.S. Census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st42_Pennsylvania/Place/4209728_BrynMawr/CBP4209728_001.pdf|title=CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: BRYN MAWR CDP|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-08-09}}</ref> and the [[2010 U.S. Census]], the CDP was located entirely in [[Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania|Lower Merion Township]], [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery County]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st42_pa/place/p4209728_bryn_mawr/DC10BLK_P4209728_001.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Bryn Mawr CDP, PA|work=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2019-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lowermerion.org/home/showdocument?id=2152|title=Ward Map|publisher=[[Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania|Lower Merion Township]]|access-date=2019-09-01}}</ref> For the [[2020 U.S. Census]], the [[U.S. Census Bureau]] redefined the CDP to, in addition, include portions of [[Haverford Township, Pennsylvania|Haverford Township]] and [[Radnor Township, Pennsylvania|Radnor Township]] in [[Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Delaware County]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/place/p4209728_bryn_mawr/DC20BLK_P4209728.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Bryn Mawr CDP, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-08-09}}</ref>