1) "Tinicum is the name of two townships in Pennsylvania: Tinicum Township, in Bucks County Tinicum Township, in Delaware County The name is also associated with the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinicum 2) Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinicum_Township%2C_Bucks_County%2C_Pennsylvania "Tinicum was organized in 1738. Tinicum is bounded by the Delaware river and Nockamixon on the north, the Delaware on the east, the Tohickon which separates it from Plumstead and Bedminster, on the south, and by Nockamixon on the west. The area is seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-seven acres. The London Company was among the very earliest land-owners in the township as well as the largest, and the purchase was probably made about the time the company bought part of manor of Highlands in 1699. The stream of immigration that planted the Scotch-Irish on the banks of the Deep run, in Bedminster, carried settlers of the same race across the Tohickon, into the then wilderness of Tinicum, in the first quarter of the last century. Settled there in 1730 were: William, Edward and Moses Marshall, Moses and Joseph Collins, Joseph Haverford, Richard Thatcher, David Griffee, Richard Minturn, James Ross, John Hall, James Willey, not one of whom was German." Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~buckscounty/tinicum.html 3) Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinicum_Township%2C_Delaware_County%2C_Pennsylvania "The area now known as the Township of Tinicum in Delaware County Pennsylvania was originally inhabited by the Lenni-Lenape Indians. The name " Leni-Lenape " loosely interpreted in their Algonquian language meant "the real people" or "the original people." The Township is located in the Southeast portion of the state and is approximately five square miles bordered by the Delaware River, Darby Creek, and what was Bow creek and the back channel around Hog Island. In 1643 the Swedes under the leadership of Johan Printz ( His likeness in the Township seal above ) made Tinicum the Capital of the New Sweden Colony. Governor Printz ruled for ten years and then returned to Sweden. Leadership was then taken over by Governor Rising who was in control until the Dutch conquered the Swedes in 1655. In 1780 Tinicum became a Township in the State of Pennsylvania. The petition contained twenty-three signers." http://www.tinicumtownshipdelco.com/index.php?page=history 4) John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum: "The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum is a 200 acre (0.8 km²) National Wildlife Refuge spanning Philadelphia and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania. Located in Tinicum Township, the refuge is adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport. Established in 1972 as the Tinicum National Environmental Center, it was renamed in 1991 after the late H. John Heinz III who had helped preserve Tinicum Marsh." "The history of Tinicum Marsh, the largest remaining freshwater tidal wetland in Pennsylvania goes back to the first settlements in the region in 1634. Swedes, Dutch and English diked and drained parts of the marsh for grazing." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heinz_National_Wildlife_Refuge_at_Tinicum