Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
The following is a reprint of a special article to The Courier by Ed Dybicz. Henderson Station is now a busy area of Upper Merion KING OF PRUSSIA- Only a few houses remain in the old village of Henderson Station, around Church and Henderson Roads, but today, this area is a thriving commercial center. When the Pennsylvania Railroad constructed its
From a Staff Correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, March 17, 1907 HUNTERS’ FINAL MEET OF SEASON – Gave Breakfast to Farmers at King of Prussia Before Chasing Reynard Over Spring Ground KING OF PRUSSIA, PA, March 16 – Superb weather and fresh, springy ground contrived to make the final fox hunt of the season at King of Prussia today
The Blizzard of 1888, from March 11 to 14, was quite a storm. The “Great White Hurricane,” as it was called, paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine. Telegraph and telephone wires snapped, isolating New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington for days. Two hundred ships were grounded, and at least one hundred seamen died. Fire stations were
Here is an excerpt from a King of Prussia Courier article written in the early 1970s when the King of Prussia Antique Shop was threatened by Mobile Oil. In 1959 the King of Prussia Historical Society conducted an exhaustive study of the old buildings remaining in the township. It found 256 sites and buildings known to be in existence before