How did Groveland, Pennsylvania get it’s name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Groveland, Pennsylvania, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
This hamlet in Plumstead Township, between Gardenville and Hinkletown, occupies the northwest angle where Durham Road intersects Point Pleasant Road and derives its name from a nearby grove of forest trees. Independent Presbyterians who seceded from the Deep Run congregation built a log church there late in the eighteenth century and held services in it for a short time. Plumstead Mennonite Meeting House occupies ground donated in 1806 by Henry Wismer, who also gave land for a burial ground. An octagonal plank schoolhouse, erected in 1833, was later replaced by a brick structure, with clay for the bricks being supplied from the Abraham Nash farm. After this building was destroyed by fire, the present stone structure was built. Dr. Joseph D. Nash, a pupil of this school and subsequently its schoolmaster, and for forty years until his death was a prominent physician there.