Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
Celebrate the Justice Bell, a Local and Nation Symbol of Women’s Suffrage! LOCAL HISTORY CONNECTION Did you know that the Justice Bell, a galvanizing symbol of women’s suffrage, lives right here at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Park? Read the story of the bell below and the local festivities happening on Tuesday, August 25 to send it
After years of planning, and an entire year of shoring up and bracing the structure, the King of Prussia Inn was moved on Sunday, August 20, 2000 from the US 202 median to Bill Smith Boulevard, land donated by PECO Energy Company. It was one of the most successful engineering efforts in Pennsylvania’s history, winning the American Association of State
At the end of this 1976 Courier article, readers were told of the kick off effort to save the Inn. Money was first raised to do exterior restoration in time for the Bicentennial. Eventually, on August 20, 2000, the Inn was moved – as the article suggests – “to a prominent place among the treasurers of our American heritage.” From
Gulf (Gulph) Mills was known for an inn that was kept by John Roberts in 1786. It had for its sign the “Bird-in-Hand.” The corner where it was located until the 1950s, Balligomingo & Trinity Roads, is now vacant land.