Lorimer Park is a public park in Abington Township,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. The park, a bequest from

George Horace Lorimer George Horace Lorimer (October 6, 1867 – October 22, 1937) was an American journalist, editor, author and publisher who worked as the editor of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' from 1899 to 1936. During his time as editor, circulation rose from s ...

(long-time editor-in-chief of ''

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''), is connected to

Pennypack Park Pennypack Park is a municipal park, part of the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation system located in Northeast Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Established in 1905 by ordinance of the City of Philadelphia, it includes about of woodlan ...

Philadelphia County Philadelphia County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the most populous county in Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, Philadelphia County had a population of 1,603,797. The county is the second smallest county in Pennsyl ...

, and the

Pennypack Creek Pennypack Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 creek in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. It runs southeast through lower Bucks Count ...

runs through both parks. The park borders

Fox Chase Farm Fox Chase Farm is one of two working farms in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences, W.B. Saul High School's Farm in Roxborough is the other). Formerly owned by the Wistar family, the farm is located on ...

, one of only two remaining active farms in

External links

Montgomery County Parks website

References

Parks in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania {{MontgomeryCountyPA-geo-stub