Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
In the 1960s, Sweetbriar was the second largest community developed by the Slott organization in the King of Prussia area. The previous successful development was Bob White Farms. From a sales brochure: Sweetbriar offers the unique blend of historic and modern America. Here in the midst of a great and vigorously expanding community the echo of the past is always
By Ed Dybicz, 3/17/1999 March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. The usual celebrations, religious services and the traditional wearin’ of the green by Irishmen named McHugh, Torricelli, Schmidt and Grabowski is a universal tribute to the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. This observance recalls the early history of Irish immigrants of Upper Merion who lived in Swedesburg and Cudgeltowne,
By Ed Dybicz, 1966 Most everyone knows that the Revolutionary Arm was encamped at Valley forge, a great part of it then in Upper Merion Township, during the Winter of 1777-78. But there are few who heard about the “women’s camp” at Valley Forge in 1890. Those women were also bent on “revolution.” Instead of physical fighting against injustice as
Fall 2005 issue of the Upper Merion Township History Bulletin, published by the Upper Merion Township Library includes these articles: Trace History of the Cultural Center House by Ed Dybicz Muhlenberg’s Headquarters by Beth Ann Twiss, Muhlenberg’s Headquarters Historian