Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
In 1930 Christ Church Old Swedes in Swedesburg, Upper Merion’s oldest parish, erected a Lych Gate – a roofed gate with side benches – as an entrance to the churchyard. it was dedicated “To The Glory of God and in Memory of Abbey Holstein, Charles Holstein, Sara Holstein and Elizabeth Paist.” The Lych (pronounced lich) Gate was patterned after a
Private Plumb’s journal entry, written on Thanksgiving Day, 1777 was timely and poignant. In plainspoken but penetrating prose, the eighteen-year-old Martin conveyed in stark detail what the common soldier faced, endured, and, sometimes, survived. While we lay here there was a Continental thanksgiving ordered by Congress; and as the army had all the cause in the world to be particularly
The main trail in Valley Forge National Historical Park is the Joseph Plumb Martin Trail, which encircles 8.7 miles of the park. Joseph Plumb Martin was a 15-year-old Connecticut boy when he enlisted in 1776. He went on to fight the entire Revolutionary war, not ending his tour of duty until 1783. He was one of the few common soldiers
On November 11, 1894, one of the large icehouses of the Knickerbocker Ice Company caught fire. Even though the icehouse was built partially of stone, it was destroyed since there was no volunteer fire company in Upper Merion at that time. Bridgeport Fire Company Number One responded to the alarm with its horse-drawn apparatus. The building was consumed. A shift