Editing Eddystone, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The area at the mouth of [[Ridley Creek]] was first called "Tequirassy" by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]].  The land was owned by [[Olof Persson Stille]], one of the early settlers from [[New Sweden]], who had immigrated in 1641. Olof Stille,  a millwright by trade, came from [[Penningby castle|Penningby Manor]] in [[Norrtälje Municipality|Länna]] in the county of [[Uppland]], north of [[Stockholm]], Sweden. After the conquest of the colony by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] in 1655, Stille was one of the four commissaries or magistrates appointed to administer justice among the inhabitants, and thus became a judge of the first court on the banks of the [[Delaware River|Delaware]].<ref>Ashmead, Henry Graham, ''History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania'', Chapter LIV. "Ridley Township". [[Philadelphia]]: L. H. Everts & Co. 1884</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| url=http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Stille.html| last=Craig| first=Dr. Peter Stebbins| title=Olof Persson Stille and His Family| work=Swedish Colonial News| volume=1| issue=16| date=Fall 1997|url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115095000/http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Stille.html| archive-date=2009-11-15}}</ref>

The borough of Eddystone was formed around the Eddystone Print Works.<ref name=Wiley>Wiley, Samuel T. ''Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pennsylvania''. New York: Gresham Publishing Company (1894)</ref>{{rp|80}} William Simpson & Sons established the Eddystone Print Works on the land that is now Eddystone in October 1873, after the land on which their previous factory had operated was condemned to make way for Fairmount Park.<ref>''The Awards and Claims of Exhibitors at the International Exhibition 1876'' (National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Boston) p. 138</ref>

Eddystone Borough was incorporated on December 7, 1888.<ref name=Wiley/>{{rp|123}} Eddystone's petition for incorporation was challenged in court on several grounds, including that "the finances of the township of [[Ridley Township, Pennsylvania|Ridley]] and of the [[Ridley School District|Ridley school district]] will be diminished by the creation of this borough."<ref name="In re">''In re Eddystone Borough,'' 3 Delaware County Reports 541, 542 (1888)</ref> On December 3, 1888, the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas issued an opinion rejecting these claims, noting that while Ridley's "revenues...will be diminished, so will its burdens."<ref name="In re"/>

On April 10, 1917, an [[Eddystone explosion|explosion at the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation]] near Chester resulted in the deaths of 133 workers, mostly women.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oldchesterpa.com/history_warfel_4.htm|title=Louis J Warfel's "My Book of Old Chester": Part IV|website=www.oldchesterpa.com|access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref>