Please join the King of Prussia Historical Society at 2:00 pm on Saturday, April 14, at Christ Church (Old Swedes) when Eugene Hough, presents “Gravestone and Marker Restoration.”  Eugene will be explaining and demonstrating various gravestone and marker restoration techniques. Eugene specializes in tombstone and cemetery preservation along with educational and archeological studies. Living history is a passion of his and he notes

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Please join the King of Prussia Historical Society at 2:00 pm on Saturday, May 12, at Christ Church (Old Swedes) when society member, Marianne Hooper Furman, presents “Schuylkill River Canal System.”  From 1825 through the 1860s canals along the Schuylkill River were a primary way to move goods - everything from coal to farm goods - to market in Philadelphia and beyond.  Join

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The King of Prussia Historical Society is partnering with the local Elks Lodge #714 and the Society for the Preservation of Christ Church Old Swedes to sponsor a Flag Day Event on Sunday, June 10.   Following a tour of Christ Church at noon, there will be a Flag Day Ceremony at 1:00 pm, and a tour of the cemetery highlighting

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Upper Merion has a rich history and fascinating geology.  We have both Civil War and Revolutionary War veterans buried in a local cemetery, we have the still-standing home of the chief matron (nurse) of Camp Letterman - the field hospital that treated thousands of wounded after the Battle of Gettysburg, we have an inn that was crawling with spies while

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