Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
On Saturday, February 23, 2019, please visit the King of Prussia Historical Society’s table at the Upper Merion Township Library’s 20th Annual Celebration of Black History. We will display a partial timeline of freedom in our state and county with facts like these: 1750 – Slavery did exist in Upper Merion township. Specific evidence of this can be found in
By Ed Dybicz 6 July 1967 During World War II many people and organizations contributed various iron and steel items to community scrap drives for weapons manufacturing. But a suggestion by the Valley Forge Park Commission in 1942 to offer 40 cannons from the historic hillsides of Valley Forge for scrap purposes, drew an expression of indignation seldom heard from
From Dr. Hiram Corson This group, if group so few can be called, consisted of Jonathon Roberts and wife, of whom I have already spoken elsewhere, their four sons and their only daughter, Mrs. Sarah Tyson, William Jones and his wife, Rachel, and the two sons of William (by a former marriage), John and Rowland, the family of Rees Thomas
24 September 1968 by Ed Dybicz When Upper Merion decided to build its own high school in 1927, the location became such an issue, that the Lower and Upper voting district fought about it. This perhaps came about from the pledge made by winning Lower District School Directors that the new educational plant would be built in the Lower District,