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44-553: At one time, the company generated an estimated $ 42.2 million in sales and had about 550 employees. NVF stopped manufacturing Vulcanized Fibre in Yorklyn after a flood in 2003 damaged the equipment. Corporate offices continued to operate until 2009, when they declared bankruptcy and dissolved the company, including the Kennett Square facility which made Industrial Plastic Laminates. At that point, NVF Company ceased to exist. The company

88-663: A household in the borough was $ 46,523, and the median income for a family was $ 54,948. Males had a median income of $ 35,978 versus $ 27,246 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 22,292. About 7.5% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 11.9% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over. As of 2010, there were 18.83 miles (30.30 km) of public roads in Kennett Square, of which 1.33 miles (2.14 km) were maintained by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 17.50 miles (28.16 km) were maintained by

132-617: A reference to Kennett, Wiltshire , England, with "Square" referring to the original land grant from William Penn , which was one square mile. In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War , Sir William Howe , a British Army general, led troops through Kennett Square on their way to the Battle of Brandywine . In the 19th century, the borough played an instrumental role in the Underground Railroad , which helped slaves escape

176-490: A suburb of both Philadelphia , the nation's sixth largest city as of 2020, and Wilmington, Delaware . The local high school is Kennett High School . The corporate headquarters of Genesis HealthCare , which administers elderly care facilities, is based in Kennett Square. The borough is sometimes referred to as the "Mushroom Capital of the World" because mushroom farming in the region produces over 500 million pounds of mushrooms

220-475: A year, representing half of the nation's mushroom crop production. To celebrate this heritage, Kennett Square holds an annual Mushroom Festival , where the town and its businesses hold a parade, mushroom farm tours, and sells food and other goods. The area that became known as Kennett Square was originally inhabited by the Lenape Native American tribe . Once colonized, the town was named Kennet Square,

264-478: Is an employee of the borough, hired by the council. The Kennett Mushroom Festival is held annually in early September. The festival has been highlighted on Food TV. Annual parades are held on Memorial Day, Halloween, and before the Christmas holidays. Kennett Square celebrates Cinco de Mayo, which is organized by Casa Guanajuato, and other local companies. A free summer concert series is held on Wednesday evenings at

308-915: Is an outdoor farmers market at the Genesis Walkway on State St. every Friday afternoon. These are but a few of the events for families and visitors throughout the year. Kennett Square schools are all part of the Kennett Consolidated School District . This grouping of districts was the first consolidation of schools in the history of Pennsylvania. Students enrolled in kindergarten attend the Mary D. Lang Kindergarten Center. Grades 1 through 5 attend either Greenwood Elementary, Bancroft Elementary or New Garden Elementary. For grades 6 through 8, all students attend Kennett Middle School. For grades 9 through 12, students then attend Kennett High School . U.S. Route 1 bypasses Kennett Square just to its north and

352-520: Is by his translation of Faust , one of the finest attempts of the kind in any literature, that Taylor is generally known; yet as an original poet he stands well up in the second rank of Americans. His Poems of the Orient and his Pennsylvania ballads comprise his best work. His verse is finished and sonorous, but at times over-rhetorical. According to the 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica : Taylor's most ambitious productions in poetry—- his Masque of

396-414: Is the subject and setting of The Story of Kennett , an 1866 novel by Bayard Taylor , who was born in Kennett Square. Kennett Square is located at 39°50′39″N 75°42′38″W  /  39.84417°N 75.71056°W  / 39.84417; -75.71056 (39.844104, −75.710654). According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km ), all land. As of

440-648: The New York Tribune , The Saturday Evening Post , and Gazette of the United States . In 1846, a collection of his articles was published in two volumes as Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff . That publication resulted in an invitation to serve as an editorial assistant for Graham's Magazine for a few months in 1848. That same year, Horace Greeley , editor of the New York Tribune , hired Taylor and sent him to California to report on

484-558: The Studies in German Literature (New York, 1879). In Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography of 1889, Edmund Clarence Stedman gives the following critique: His poetry is striking for qualities that appeal to the ear and eye, finished, sonorous in diction and rhythm, at times too rhetorical, but rich in sound, color, and metrical effects. His early models were Byron and Shelley , and his more ambitious lyrics and dramas exhibit

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528-595: The Tribune on the one thousandth anniversary of the first European settlement there. On July 4, 1876, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia , Bayard recited his National Ode to an enthusiastic crowd of more than four thousand, the largest audience for a poetry reading in the United States to that date and a record which stood until 1961. The ode was written at the request of the exhibition's organizers, after

572-547: The gold rush . He returned by way of Mexico and published another two-volume collection of travel essays, El Dorado; or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (1850). Within two weeks of release, the books sold 10,000 copies in the U.S. and 30,000 in Great Britain. In 1849 Taylor married Mary Agnew, who died of tuberculosis the next year. That same year, Taylor won a popular competition sponsored by P. T. Barnum to write an ode for

616-590: The "Swedish Nightingale", singer Jenny Lind . His poem "Greetings to America" was set to music by Julius Benedict and performed by the singer at numerous concerts on her tour of the United States. In 1851 he traveled to Egypt, where he followed the Nile River as far as 12° 30' N. He also traveled in Palestine and Mediterranean countries, writing poetry based on his experiences. Toward the end of 1852, he sailed from England to Calcutta , and then to China, where he joined

660-461: The 1990s, the company was controlled by financier Victor Posner . NVF was involved in a dispute with the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts about unpaid taxes on a paper factory there which was later destroyed by fire. An NVF facility in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania was found to be contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls . A former NVF manufacturing site in Newark, Delaware has been redeveloped by

704-520: The 2010 census, the borough was 42.8% non-Hispanic White, 7.2% Black or African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.8% Asian, and 3.3% were two or more races. 48.8% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. As of the census, there were 6,072 people, 1,868 households, and 1,242 families residing in the borough. The population density was 4,679.2 inhabitants per square mile (1,806.6/km ). There were 1,967 housing units at an average density of 1,745.5 per square mile (673.9/km ). The racial makeup of

748-609: The Commonwealth Group of New Castle, Delaware . This United States manufacturing company–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Kennett Square is a borough in Chester County , Pennsylvania , United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census , Kennett Square had a population of 5,943. Kennett Square is located in the Delaware Valley and considered

792-481: The Gods (Boston, 1872), Prince Deukalion; a lyrical drama (Boston, 1878), The Picture of St John (Boston, 1866), Lars; a Pastoral of Norway (Boston, 1873), and The Prophet; a tragedy (Boston, 1874)—- are marred by a ceaseless effort to overstrain his power. But he will be remembered by his poetic and excellent translation of Goethe's Faust (2 vols, Boston, 1870–71) in the original metres. Taylor felt, in all truth,

836-483: The South for freedom. In 1853, a group asked for Kennett Square to be incorporated, and by 1855 it held elections. Kennett Square's founder is credited with introducing mushroom growing to the area. He grew carnations , a popular local commodity beginning in 1885 and wanted to make use of the wasted space under the elevated beds. He imported spawn from Europe and started experimenting with mushroom cultivation. Kennett Square

880-475: The U.S. on December 20, 1853, and undertook a successful public lecturer tour that extended from Maine to Wisconsin . After two years, he went to northern Europe to study Swedish life, language and literature. The trip inspired his long narrative poem Lars . His series of articles Swedish Letters to the Tribune were republished as Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures (1857). In Berlin in 1856, Taylor met

924-675: The age of seventeen, he was apprenticed to a printer in West Chester. The influential critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold encouraged him to write poetry. The volume that resulted, Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems , was published in 1844 and dedicated to Griswold. Using the money from his poetry and an advance for travel articles, he visited parts of England, France, Germany and Italy, making largely pedestrian tours for almost two years. He sent accounts of his travels to

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968-790: The area is assigned to the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District . Unionville High School , the only one in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, is located on Unionville Road (Pennsylvania State Route 82), approximately 2 miles north of the Borough of Kennett Square. Kennett Square has three local newspapers: The Chester County Press , The Kennett Paper , and The Daily Local News . There are also two print magazines, Fig Kennett and Kennett Square Today . Bayard Taylor Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878)

1012-571: The beautiful (over 100 acre) Anson B Nixon park. In mid-May, the famous Kennett Run occurs that ends at the Park pavilion. The Kennett Brewfest is held each Fall, featuring unlimited tastings of select brewers pouring different, rare, exclusive, limited, or seasonal beers . The local art galleries, studios, and independent boutiques participate in First Friday Art Strolls each month, presented by Historic Kennett Square. During temperate months there

1056-549: The borough was 73.58% White , 10.26% African American , 0.09% Native American , 1.63% Asian , 12.48% from other races , and 1.95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 27.88% of the population. There were 1,868 households, out of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.5% were non-families. Of all households 28.2% were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who

1100-448: The borough. Pennsylvania Route 82 is the only numbered highway directly serving the borough. It follows a southeast-to-northwest alignment through the central portion of the borough via South Street and Union Street. U.S. Route 1 bypasses the borough to the north. The borough is governed by the council–manager form of government. There are seven council members and a mayor, and all are elected by borough residents. The borough manager

1144-768: The daughter of the Danish/German astronomer Peter Hansen . The couple spent the following winter in Greece. In 1859 Taylor returned to the American West and lectured at San Francisco . In 1862, he was appointed to the U.S. diplomatic service as secretary of legation at St. Petersburg , and acting minister to Russia for a time during 1862–3 after the resignation of Ambassador Simon Cameron . He published his first novel Hannah Thurston in 1863. The newspaper The New York Times first praised him for "break[ing] new ground with such assured success". A second much longer appreciation in

1188-608: The expedition of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry to Japan. The results of these journeys were published as A Journey to Central Africa; or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile (1854); The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain (1854); and A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853 (1855). He returned to

1232-485: The great German scientist Alexander von Humboldt , hoping to interview him for the New York Tribune . Humboldt was welcoming, and inquired whether they should speak English or German. Taylor planned to go to central Asia, where Humboldt had traveled in 1829. Taylor informed Humboldt of Washington Irving 's death; Humboldt had met him in Paris. He saw Humboldt again in 1857 at Potsdam. In October 1857, he married Maria Hansen,

1276-573: The intellectual growth of the American people.... The life of the poet who sleeps here represents the long period of transition between the appearance of American poetry and the creation of an appreciative and sympathetic audience for it." Taylor imitated and parodied the writings of various poets in Diversions of the Echo Club (London, 1873; Boston, 1876). In 1874 Taylor traveled to Iceland to report for

1320-502: The latter's peculiar, often vague, spirituality. Lars , somewhat after the manner of Tennyson, is his longest and most attractive narrative poem. Prince Deukalion was designed for a masterpiece; its blank verse and choric interludes are noble in spirit and mould. Some of Taylor's songs, oriental idyls, and the true and tender Pennsylvanian ballads, have passed into lasting favor, and show the native quality of his poetic gift. His fame rests securely upon his unequalled rendering of Faust in

1364-458: The music of others, pre-eminently of Tennyson. But he had often a true and fine note of his own. His best short poems are The Metempsychosis of the Pine and the well-known Bedouin love-song. In his critical essays Bayard Taylor had himself in no inconsiderable degree what he wrote of as that pure poetic insight which is the vital spirit of criticism. The most valuable of these prose dissertations are

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1408-815: The next year. In 1864 Taylor and his wife Maria returned to the U.S. In 1866, Taylor traveled to Colorado and made a large loop through the northern mountains on horseback with a group that included William Byers, editor of the newspaper Rocky Mountain News . His letters describing this adventure were later compiled and published as Colorado: A Summer Trip . In 1866, Taylor popularized outlaw James Fitzpatrick as swashbuckling hero Sandy Flash in his novel The Story of Kennett , set in Revolutionary War -era Pennsylvania. Taylor's novel Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (1870), first serialized in The Atlantic ,

1452-754: The original metres, of which the first and second parts appeared in 1870 and 1871. His commentary upon Part II for the first time interpreted the motive and allegory of that unique structure. Collected editions of his Poetical Works and his Dramatic Works were published at Boston in 1888; his Life and Letters (Boston, 2 vols., 1884) were edited by his wife and Horace Scudder . Marie Hansen Taylor translated into German Bayard's Greece (Leipzig, 1858), Hannah Thurston (Hamburg, 1863), Story of Kennett (Gotha, 1868), Tales of Home (Berlin, 1879), Studies in German Literature (Leipzig, 1880), and notes to Faust , both parts (Leipzig, 1881). After her husband's death, she edited, with notes, his Dramatic Works (1880), and in

1496-484: The same newspaper was thoroughly negative, describing "one pointless, aimless situation leading to another of the same stamp, and so on in maddening succession". It concluded: "The platitudes and puerilities which might otherwise only raise a smile, when confronted with such pompous pretensions, excite the contempt of every man who has in him the feeblest instincts of common honesty in literature." It proved successful enough for his publisher to announce another novel from him

1540-399: The task had been declined by several other eminent poets, including John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . The work was reprinted in newspapers across the country and later published as a book in two separate editions. During March 1878, the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment as United States Minister to Prussia . Mark Twain , who traveled to Europe on the same ship,

1584-431: The torment and the ecstasy of verse; but, as a critical friend has written of him, his nature was so ardent, so full-blooded, that slight and common sensations intoxicated him, and he estimated their effect, and his power to transmit it to others, beyond the true value. He had, from the earliest period at which he began to compose, a distinct lyrical faculty: so keen indeed was his ear that he became too insistently haunted by

1628-453: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.39. In the borough, the population was spread out, with 24.8% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.8 males. The median income for

1672-497: Was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was very popular, with a crowd of more than 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia. Taylor was born on January 11, 1825, in Kennett Square in Chester County, Pennsylvania . He

1716-498: Was described as a story of young man in rural Pennsylvania and "the troubles which arise from the want of a broader education and higher culture." The story is believed to be based on the poets Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake , and since the late 20th century has been called America's first gay novel. Taylor spoke at the dedication of a monument to Halleck in his native town, Guilford, Connecticut . He said that in establishing this monument to an American poet "we symbolize

1760-532: Was envious of Taylor's command of German. Taylor's travel writings were widely quoted by congressmen seeking to defend racial discrimination. Richard Townshend (D-IL) quoted passages from Taylor such as "the Chinese are morally, the most debased people on the face of the earth" and "A Chinese city is the greatest of all abominations." A few months after arriving in Berlin, Taylor died there on December 19, 1878. His body

1804-585: Was formed by the merger of American Vulcanized Fiber Company, the National Fiber and Insulation Company and the Keystone Fiber Company on January 1, 1923. Company president Warren Marshall's 1936 salary was included in a list of "highest salaries paid in nation" released in 1938 by a Congressional committee. In 1946, the company's shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange . In

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1848-438: Was mostly recognized as a travel writer during his lifetime. Modern critics have generally accepted him as technically skilled in verse, but lacking imagination and, ultimately, consider his work as a conventional example of 19th-century sentimentalism . His translation of Faust , however, was recognized for its scholarly skill and remained in print through 1969. According to the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana : It

1892-522: Was returned to the U.S. and buried in Longwood Cemetery, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The New York Times published his obituary on its front page, referring to him as "a great traveler, both on land and paper". Shortly after his death, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a memorial poem in Taylor's memory, at the urging of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Though he wanted to be known most as a poet, Taylor

1936-537: Was the fourth son, the first to survive to maturity, of the Quaker couple Joseph and Rebecca (née Way) Taylor. His mother was of half Swiss origin His father was a wealthy farmer. Bayard's youngest brother was Charles Frederick Taylor , a Union Army colonel killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Bayard received his early instruction in an academy at West Chester , Pennsylvania, and later at nearby Unionville . At

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