On January 11, 1993, Upper Merion became the first police department in Pennsylvania with the ability to access records in Harrisburg from computers in its patrol cars. Few police departments had the equipment because it was expensive. It cost Upper Merion $150,000 to install the computers in eleven of its patrol cars. Read the full article from the January 21,
Please join the King of Prussia Historical Society at 2:00 pm on Saturday, May 13th at Christ Church (Old Swedes) for our program, “From the Archive.” We will look back at recent donations to our KoPHS Archive and Special Collections. We will showcase acquisitions from 2016, and have an interesting discussion based upon what we have been given. Program is
The old clock tower stood for many years at the King of Prussia Plaza in the outdoor mall, and its chime could be heard throughout the township. When the Plaza underwent renovations in the 1980’s, the tower was dismantled and stored in the back corner of the parking lot. Years later, the mechanism was overhauled and used in the new
If you were standing across the Schuylkill River in Norristown looking over at Bridgeport in 1828, this is what you would have seen. In the early 1700, Swedish settler Mats Holstein stretched a rope across the river, and the location became known as Swedes Ford. Then Holstein started a ferry service about 1760. Travelers on foot or on horseback