Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
Valley View ‘Topped Out’ (Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/14/64) The first building at Valley View, Martin Field’s high-rise apartment development on a 35-acre site in King of Prussia, was “topped out” last week. Instead of the evergreen tree usually affixed to the framework by structural steel erectors as a god luck charm, a Colonial Flag flies from the top of the nine-story
George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation George Washington’s military genius is undisputed. Yet American independence must be partially attributed to a strategy for which history has given the infamous general little credit: his controversial medical actions. Traditionally, the Battle of Saratoga is credited with tipping the revolutionary scales. Yet the health of the Continental regulars involved in battle
Before and after picture of 560 West DeKalb Pike. The house was built by Billy Walker for Dr. Church. From 1956 until Spring 2013, when the building was demolished to make way for the expansion of the Burger King franchise, the house was the site of the King of Prussia Veterinary Hospital. (The veterinary hospital has moved to Beidler Road
The area between the Valley Forge Historical National Park Welcome Center and the Schuylkill River was once the thriving industrial village of Port Kennedy where the main business was quarrying limestone and shipping lime. Here is the notice of sale of the limestone land and quarries of David Zook published in the Norristown Register and Montgomery Democrat on Tuesday, November