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Eddystone is a borough in Delaware County on the north bank of the Delaware River at the mouth of Ridley Creek, in an area the Native Americans called 'Tequirassy.'

The land that became Eddystone was owned by Olof Persson Stille, one of the early settlers of New Sweden, who immigrated to the area in 1641.

Eddystone grew up around the Eddystone Print Works, established by William Simpson & Sons in October 1873; Simpson named the works and the town after England's Eddystone Lighthouse, which had impressed him on a visit to England.

Eddystone was incorporated as a borough on December 7, 1888, and founder William Simpson built worker housing plus a school, a park and a library for the mill community.

Eddystone was the site of the largest plant of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, which was once the largest manufacturer of steam locomotives in the world; Baldwin moved its production from Philadelphia to Eddystone beginning in 1907.

During World War I, the Remington Arms Eddystone Rifle Plant produced the Pattern 1914 and M1917 Enfield rifles - more than a million rifles in all - and almost two-thirds of the rifles used by American soldiers in France were made at Eddystone.

On April 10, 1917, a series of explosions destroyed buildings of the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation, killing more than 130 workers and injuring about 100 others, in one of the worst industrial disasters of the war years.

The Platt-LePage Aircraft Company built some of the earliest rotorcraft on land adjacent to Eddystone, and today an Exelon generating station occupies part of the borough's riverfront.

Eddystone covers 1.5 square miles, but about a third of that area is water - the Delaware River itself.

Eddystone had a population of 2,459 at the 2020 census, and at the 2000 census its 2,442 residents lived in 964 households.