The township is bounded by the Wynnefield Heights, Belmont Village, Wynnefield, and Overbrook communities in the city of Philadelphia the Boroughs of Conshohocken and West Conshohocken, and the Townships of Upper Merion and Whitemarsh in Montgomery County and by the Townships of Haverford and Radnor in Delaware County. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 23.9 square miles (61.8 km 2), of which 23.7 square miles (61.4 km 2) is land and 0.2 square mile (0.4 km 2) (0.67%) is water. After some campaigning by local residents and by Senator Pat Toomey, the Lower Merion Board of Commissioners declared, via an ordinance, the entire Lower Merion as a historic district and received a waiver from Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. In 2012, the Federal Highway Administration modified the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices in a way that would have required the replacement of Lower Merion Township's historic street signs, some of which date back to the early 1910s. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief in support of the student. Lower Merion School District, after a school administrator used the webcam of a school-issued laptop to spy on the student while the student was in his home. In 2010, the township received national media attention when a student filed a lawsuit, Robbins v. The Mill Creek Historic District, and Seville Theatre are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The other four people in both aircraft also died, and the falling debris from the aircraft also caused the death of two elementary students and injured five others. Senator John Heinz died while as a passenger in a Piper Aerostar propeller aircraft when it collided with a Bell 412 helicopter over the Merion Elementary School in the Merion air disaster. Lower Merion is home to the oldest continuously used place of worship in the United States, the Merion Friends Meeting House, used continuously since 1695. In 1900, the Township was incorporated as a Township of the First Class. In 1713, Lower Merion was established as an independent Township with about 52 landholders and tenants. Lower Merion Township was first settled in 1682 by Welsh Quakers, who were granted a tract of land, the Welsh Tract, by William Penn. See also: Pennsylvania in the American Revolution and Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Map of Lower Merion Township Lower Merion street signs Harriton House as it appeared c.

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