Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
THREATENED CLOSING SURVIVED BY MOORE ROAD YEARS AGO By Ed Dybicz 1966 Anyone traveling West along Valley Forge Rd., or on First Avenue in Upper Merion Township, will eventually come in contact with Moore Rd. Moore Rd. is one of the oldest roads in Upper Merion Township having been laid out in 1810. Off Moore Rd. in Port Kennedy, is
By Ed Dybicz, 28 January 1969 An Upper Merion Township man was the first to suggest that American flags be placed in all the Public Schools of the Commonwealth. He was Richard Thomas Stewart Hallowell, of Swedesburg, who was State President of the Patriotic Order Sons of America in 1887-1888. In 1922 a magnificent monument, a tribute to the late
Under a blazing sun on Saturday, May 30, 1931, President Herbert Hoover urged the “U.S. to adopt ideals of Valley Forge.” 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. “WE ARE upon the eve of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
Land that used to be part of the DiGiambattistas family’s Sunny Hill Farm will the home of the new Upper Merion Community Garden. Here are some aerial pictures of that area over the years.