Glenrose

Historic Settlement and Post Office [1]

The name of the first post office at Glenrose, about three miles southwest of Coatesville, is an example of the confusion caused by the Post Office Department in giving a name to a post office not in accordance with those in local usage. Was the post office in the backwoods settlement to be called Spring Hope or Fallowfield? David Brinton, a Quaker who on October 14, 1890, opened a post office in a grist mill adjoining Spring Hope Creamery, suggested the name of Spring Hope, but it was not accepted. The Post Office Department handed down the name of Timicula (pronounced Ti-mic'-u-la), but neither Brinton nor the boxholders knew how to pronounce it properly. After Reading Romona, a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Ward, a teacher at Westtown School, suggested the name of Glenrose that she found in the novel. The change in the name from Timicula to Glenrose was made on June 27, 1912.

1. Edward Pinkowski, Chester County Place Names, Philadelphia, Sunshine Press, 1962

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Street Names: Glenrose Road, Glenrose Road West, Park Avenue