Annual Meeting (rescheduled from January 12) with a short program, "From the TV Archives."  Local broadcast media professional, news writer, and Society board member, George Brusstar, will present a pictorial retrospective of our community from the 80s and 90s. For several years in the early 1990s, Upper Merion residents were able to look-in on "KP-3" - King Of Prussia's first

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Please join the King of Prussia Historical Society at 2:00 pm on Saturday, May 11, when Michael Shaw presents “A Mall and Its Legacy: The King of Prussia Mall” Local author, historian, and friend of the Society, Michael Shaw, has been carefully researching one of the largest malls in America for his next book. The King of Prussia Mall is one of Montgomery

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Join us on Saturday, June 8, at 2:00 PM at Lower Merion Historical Society for our annual field trip.  We will be joined by members of the Tredyffrin Easttown and the Radnor Historical Societies for this private escorted tour of a mature, financially independent historical society. For more than 60 years, the volunteers of the Lower Merion Historical Society have

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Upper Merion has a rich and fascinating history.  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 Washington

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