Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
In the 1950s, Upper Merion experienced a housing boom. Here is a look at just some of the new housing development ads from the 1950s plus a 1958 map. Let’s hear some of your fondest memories of growing up in Dartmouth Hills, Belmont Terrace, Lowell Hills, Merion View, Cinnamon Hill, Lafayette Park, Bob White Farms, Sweetbriar, Cannon Run, Washington Park,
In 1985, under the direction of Upper Merion Township recreation director David Broida, a summer concert series was started. In the beginning three concerts played to about 400 people each from a mobile stage at the Upper Merion Cultural Center on Moore Road. An earlier attempt for a folk series in 1977, wasn’t successful with only 50 people showing up.
Under a blazing sun on Saturday, May 30, 1931, President Herbert Hoover spoke before a crowd of 20,000 men, women and children assembled on the grassy tiers of a natural amphitheater in Valley Forge Park near Washington Memorial Chapel. Few people knew that the Rev. Dr. W. Herbert Burk, president of the Valley Forge Historical Society and rector of the
From the Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Jan 1962 EARLY AMERICAN THEME SET FOR NEW SHOPPING CENTER A pedestrian mall of red brick, designed to simulate a Colonial town square, replicas of pre-Revolutionary cannons and a children’s play area in the form of a miniature stockade will be incorporated in King of Prussia Plaza, 60-acre shopping center at Routes 202 and 23,