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Media is a borough in and the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] It is located about 13 miles (21 km) west of Philadelphia. It is part of the Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Media was incorporated in 1850 at the same time that it was named the county seat. [4]
Media in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is home to the first commercial radio station in the United States, KDKA 1020AM, the first community-sponsored television station in the United States, WQED 13, the first "networked" television station and the first station in the country to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KDKA 2, and the first newspaper ...
The Delaware County Institute of Science is a science and natural history museum, library and education center in Media, Pennsylvania. It was organized in 1833 and contains exhibits of mounted animals and birds; fossils, shells and corals from around the world; an herbarium; a large collection of minerals; and a reference library and lecture ...
The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI was an activist group operational in the US during the early 1970s. Their only known action was breaking into a two-man Media, Pennsylvania, office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and stealing over 1,000 classified documents. They then mailed these documents anonymously to several US ...
1994. Years active. 1927–present. Website. mediatheatre.org. The Media Theatre is a 440-seat theater in Media, Pennsylvania, built in 1927 as a vaudeville house and cinema. [1] It is the largest regional professional theater that hires equity actors in Delaware County. [1] The Media Theatre opened its doors on August 29, 1927, as a cinema ...
Website. www.williamson.edu. Isaiah Vansant Williamson c.1880. Williamson College of the Trades (formerly Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades) is a private men's junior vocational college in Media, Pennsylvania. The school was founded on December 1, 1888, by Philadelphia merchant and philanthropist Isaiah Vansant Williamson. [1][2]
Queen Anne, Shingle Style. NRHP reference No. 13000255 [1] Added to NRHP. May 8, 2013. Idlewild is a historic building near Media, Pennsylvania, designed by the Victorian-era Philadelphia architect Frank Furness as a summer cottage for his family. [1] He spent summers there until his death in 1912.
89002077 [1] Added to NRHP. December 22, 1989. The Media Armory, is a historic National Guard Armory located in Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania built in 1908 for Company H of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard.