Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
On August 9, 1918, Senator Philander C. Knox wrote in a letter from his Valley Forge farm that “a few patriotic citizens” demonstrated their antipathy to anything German. These citizens took it upon themselves to shoot up the old sign board at the King of Prussia Inn. Because of the declaration of war against Germany in 1917, there was heavy
One hundred years ago, in 1919, Port Kennedy was reduced to nearly nonexistence when the Valley Forge Park Commission received a $250,000 grant to condemn by right of eminent domain and acquire most of Port Kennedy for park purposes. On 4 August 1919 the Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia) published Town Is Wiped Out To Develop Park – State Commission Condemns
In July, 2019, the King of Prussia Historical Society received before and after aerials of the Valley Forge Golf Course property from Roger Thorne, our friend and former president of the Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society. Roger says The following from 2019 is the 11th year that my friend Dave Nelson and I have flown together capturing images of the changing
From 1956 to 1971 King of Prussia had a drive-in. Valley Forge Drive-in theater, a Budco theater, was located on Allendale Road essentially where Costco and Tile Center sit today. The drive-in closed when the property was sold to Levitz Furniture Company, a nationwide chain of American furniture stores that helped create the “furniture warehouse” genre of retail furniture sales,