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Wawa is an unincorporated community located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia, partially in Middletown Township and partially in Chester Heights Borough.〔Mayer, Cynthia. "Pay A Visit To Wawa, The Place." ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. June 15, 1989. D4. p. (2 ). Retrieved on September 16, 2012. "Part of it is in Middletown, and part of it is in Chester Heights Borough. Because Wawa predates both municipalities - as a settlement, it even predates Delaware()"〕 Natives of the Wawa area pronounce the word in a manner that rhymes with "ha-ha." ==History== In the 1700s people from Philadelphia and New Jersey settled Wawa due to the community's abundance of water. Various mills, including gristmills and paper mills, opened on area creeks.〔Mayer, Cynthia. "Pay A Visit To Wawa, The Place." ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. June 15, 1989. D4. p. (1 ). Retrieved on September 16, 2012.〕 Wawa was originally known as Pennellton and Grubb's Bridge. When Edward Worth built an estate here, he named it "Wawa",〔; Ashmead, published in 1884, does not provide a date, but John W. Jordan, ''A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Its People'' (NY 1914) page 726, says Edward Worth was born in 1843 - only 12 years before the publication of Longfellow's ''Hiawatha'', and by 1887 was president of a prosperous feldspar mining company, and apparently still alive in 1914.〕 the Ojibwe word for "wild goose", because of the flocks of geese attracted to the still water behind Lenni milldam. The name had been transferred to the town by 1884.〔 Forge Hill was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1973. Cynthia Mayer of the ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' said in 1989 that there was "the indignity of being from a town now associated with a convenience store. Unlike, say, Hershey, Pa. - or Wawa's cherished dairying past - outsiders now tend to associate Wawa with Chee-tos, emergency toilet paper errands and Super Squeezers."〔Mayer, Cynthia. "Pay A Visit To Wawa, The Place." ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. June 15, 1989. D4. p. (4 ). Retrieved on September 16, 2012.〕 Eight weeks before June 15, 1989, Wawa Inc. announced that it planned to expand its Wawa dairy, which is located in Middletown Township. Walter Kirby, head of the Wawa Farms Association, alerted residents of the Wawa community, and they appeared in large numbers at a meeting. Kirby said that residents did not want the dairy to expand, but they preferred having a dairy to other types of development.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wawa, Pennsylvania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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