Editing Folcroft, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
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The origin of Folcroft can be traced back to the mid 1600s and early settlements of [[New Sweden]].  Delmar Drive was once part of Calcon Hook Road. ''Calcon'' is the [[Swedish language|Swedish]] word for "turkey", and ''Hook'' is the Swedish word for "road". The original road was a [[Leni Lenape]] trail called "Turkey's Neck Trail" by the settlers, and was no more than {{convert|4|ft}} wide.<!-- This is from another Delaware County Wikipedia article: "In early times, Marcus Hook was a major Lenni Lenape settlement that became a Swedish trading post in the 1640s. The settlement was renamed "Marrites Hoeck" after the Dutch conquered the area in 1655. The borough was officially incorporated on March 7, 1892. It is my understanding that the transition was from native American tongue to Swedish to Dutch and then to English.-->

Originally productive farmlands, it became a residential suburb of [[Philadelphia]] with the construction of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] through the area in 1874.  A passenger stop was built and named Folcroft, or "leafy fields". Originally part of [[Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Darby Township]], Folcroft was incorporated as a borough in 1922.<ref>{{cite web|title=Comprehensive Plan for the Borough of Folcroft|url=http://elibrary.pacounties.org/Documents/Delaware_County/1055;%20Folcroft%20Borough/4204526408mcp.pdf|website=www.elibrary.pacounties.org|access-date=November 5, 2017}}</ref>

In August 1963, the Baker family became the first African-American family to purchase a house in Folcroft in the Delmar village complex.  When local white residents learned of the purchase, the house was vandalized and a crowd of over a thousand people prevented the Baker family from entering their home. 100 Pennsylvania State Troopers were required to control the crowd and allow the Bakers to enter their home. The harassment and vandalism continued and forced the Bakers to sell the home and move in 1966.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mele |first1=Christopher |title=Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City |date=2017 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4798-6609-0 |pages=65–70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAl3DQAAQBAJ |access-date=March 13, 2020}}</ref>

In July 2020 during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]], Folcroft became the first municipality in Delaware County to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/folcroft-decriminalize-marijuana-delaware-county-20200722.html|title=A Delco town has voted to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana|last=Vella|first=Vinny|date=July 22, 2020|work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003204116/https://www.inquirer.com/news/folcroft-decriminalize-marijuana-delaware-county-20200722.html|archive-date=October 3, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

On January 3, 2022, Franny DiCicco was sworn in as the first female Mayor of Folcroft in its 100 year history.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zipkin |first1=Michele |title=Community Briefs: January 12, 2022 |url=https://epgn.com/2022/01/12/community-briefs/ |access-date=6 May 2022 |work=[[Philadelphia Gay News]] |date=12 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Delaware County Municipal Officials Directory 2022 |url=https://www.delcopa.gov/sustainability/pdf/MunicipalOfficialsDirectory.pdf |website=Delaware County, PA Official Website |publisher=Delaware County Office of Sustainability |access-date=6 May 2022}}</ref> The incoming Mayor won election along with Democratic candidates in a clean sweep of the open seats of the borough on Election Day 2021.