New Garden Township, Pennsylvania

New Garden Township
New Garden Township
Township
	Merestone, a historic estate in the township
	Location pf New Garden Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania and of Chester County in Pennsylvania
	Location of Pennsylvania in the United States
	Coordinates: 39°50′08″N 75°46′01″W / 39.83556°N 75.76694°W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Chester
Area
• Total	16.29 sq mi (42.18 km2)
• Land	16.11 sq mi (41.73 km2)
• Water	0.17 sq mi (0.45 km2)
Elevation	472 ft (144 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	11,363
• Density	700/sq mi (270/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	610
FIPS code	42-029-53608
Website	www.newgarden.org

New Garden Township is a township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, which was organized in 1714. The population was 11,363 at the 2020 census.^[2]

New Garden is the center of the mushroom agribusiness in southeastern Pennsylvania with a higher concentration of composting, mushroom growing, packaging, and shipping businesses than in any other municipality in the area. It was named for the New Garden Friends' Meeting House, an eighteenth-century brick house of worship of the Religious Society of Friends, within its territorial limits.

^ "2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved Aug 13, 2017.
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[CenPopGazetteer2016-1] "2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved Aug 13, 2017.

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