King of Prussia Gazette
THE KING OF PRUSSIA GAZETTE is published quarterly by the Society to promote interest and research in local history. The Society is dedicated to publishing historic truths and to ennoble the present through a recognition of the past.
Annual membership entitles you to receive by mail quarterly issues of THE KING OF PRUSSIA GAZETTE, which features articles about our local history and other valuable information.
The President’s Message only is available for newer issues. Older issues are available in full.
KOPHS Gazette Summer 2020
President’s Message
Collecting History
The Hanging Rock
Forty Valley Forge Cannons
Grant Award
Nothing on Television
A Comparison
The Society
51st Regiment
KOPHS Gazette Fall 2020
President’s Message
Perry’s/Michael’s Deli
Saving the Inn
Dr. Carl Schultheis
The House on Moore Road
Dr. Louis W. Read
Spirit of Halloweens Past
The Bridges at Port Kennedy
KOPHS Gazette Summer 2020
President’s Message
Walker Monument
Emma L. Carson
Linda Rice and the Founding of Temple Brith Achim
The Times Herald
Walker Field History
Upper Merion Reservoir
Killed on Birthday Eve
Goats Fed in Park
Dr. Louis Read
KOPHS Gazette Spring 2020
A Tribute
President’s Message
Roberts Portrait
Centennial of Women’s Suffrage
Swedeland Fire Company
Cost of the Prom
KOPHS Gazette Winter 2019
President’s Message
J. Michael Morrison Honored
Slavery in Montgomery County
Chuck Volpi
The Postage Stamp
Tales from the Grave
Swedesford Road Renamed
KOPHS Gazette Fall 2019
President’s Message
Lafayette Ambulance
Silas Burgess
Swedesford Crossing
Freedom and Slavery (Part 1)
KOPHS Gazette Summer 2019
President’s Message
A Correction
Preservation
The Lost Bone Cave
Trinity Lane Bridge
Cemeteries of Upper Merion
Not In Bridgeport
KOPHS Gazette Spring 2019
Vice President’s Message
Sharing Our Local History
The Story of Slim
Ten Little Bits of History
That Which Survives
KOPHS Gazette Winter 2018
Vice President’s Message
The Story of Slim
A Tribute
Ringing in the New
KOPHS Gazette Fall 2018
Vice President’s Message
Historical Tours of Upper Merion
The Village That Vanished
Port Kennedy, Past and Present
Before the Village Vanished
Port Kennedy Cowboys
Brewfest
KOPHS Gazette Summer 2018
Vice President’s Message
George Washington Slept Here
Annual Report
Kenhurst and the Crane Family Memorial
Sunny Hill Farm
Gulph Road
A Request from Ireland
KOPHS Gazette Spring 2018
President’s Message
The Demise of Rebel Hill
1937 PIONEER Spartans
What Is History?
January 2018 Program
KOPHS Gazette 2017 Winter
Ghost-Written Plea About Rebel Hill
President’s Message
From the Diary of a Surgeon
Thanksgiving in the Gulph
The First Mass Military Innoculation
Encampment at Rebel Hill
KOPHS Gazette 2017 Fall
President’s Message
The Demise of Rebel Hill
These Old Houses
New Look of Website
Mt. Zion and Roberts Burial Ground
Candlebrook
Nor-View
KOPHS Gazette 2017 Summer
President’s Message
The Demise of Rebel Hill
A Model Resolution
Hunters’ Final Meet of Season
These Old Houses
KOPHS Gazette 2017 Spring
President’s Message
Register of Historic Places
Bridgeport Hall of Fame
Schools of Upper Merion Township
A Visit to the Village
Quarry Sale: Port Kennedy 1852
The Demise of Rebel Hill
KOPHS Gazette 2016 Winter
President’s Message
Schools of Upper Merion
King of Prussia Moon Tree
The Backstory
These Old Houses
Teacher Inservice
KOPHS Gazette 2016 Fall
President’s Message
Schools of Upper Merion Township
A Museum in Upper Merion
10 Things I Miss
Cyrus Hickman Called
Reminiscing Upper Merion
KOPHS Gazette 2016 Summer
President’s Message
A Museum for Upper Merion
J. Howard Walker
A Major Move
From the Society’s Files
The King of Prussia Historical Society
A Commitment to Preservation
Museum to Replace Antique Shop in “King”
KOPHS Gazette 2016 Spring
President’s Message
The Diary
Teacher E-Mail
Dr. Henry De Witt Pawling
Geocaching
A Real Find
Trash or Treasure?
KOPHS Gazette 2015 Winter
Drinker Oak–A Pictorial Essay
The Diary (A glimpse into the life in Upper Merion in the early half of the nineteenth century.)
KOPHS Gazette 2015 Fall
Roberts School
Ann W. Pechin, Teacher
The Little Church at the Crossroads
KOPHS Gazette 2015 Summer
The Road to Valley Forge
Edward J. Dybicz, 1923 – 2015
The Edward J. Dybicz Memorial Scholarship Award
Stepping Up: Harry Deuber’s Autobiography
Mount Zion Cemetery and the Roberts Cemetery
KOPHS Gazette 2015 Spring
“No one sent them. They volunteered to go…”
Ann W. Pechin: Activist and Leader in Life Long Education
Paula Himmelsbach Belano: Designer of Windows
Mount Pleasant Revisited
KOPHS Gazette 2014 Winter
The Hampton House: A Commitment to Preservation?
Alderbrook and the McKaig Family
Demolition of Historic Buildings: A Wake-Up Call for Upper Merion
KOPHS Gazette 2014 Fall
The King of Prussia Football Association
Exley Log Cabin
Holstein-Hulings Wedding 1744: Getting to the Church in Canoes!
KOPHS Gazette 2014 Summer
The Henderson Family
The Henderson Family Burial Plot
Historic Henderson Estate
A Henderson Quarry Curiosity
Bicentennial 1976: Valley Forge
KOPHS Gazette 2014 Spring
Peter Wentz Farmstead Field Trip
Transportation in Upper Merion’s History: Then and Now
The Schuylkill Navigation Company
From Canals to Railroads
The Freedom Train
KOPHS Gazette 2013 Winter
Historic Preservation: How One Society Does It
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Old Buildings
The Knickerbocker Ice Company History
KOPHS Gazette 2013 Fall
Lewis Walker of Chester County and his Descendents
Remembering William Walker
The Maturing of King of Prussia
KOPHS Gazette 2013 Summer
Civil War Veterans Buried at Christ Church (Old Swedes):
Brigadier General Samuel K. Zook
Captain George W. Bisbing
Nurse Anna Morris Holstein
Nurse Sarah B. Priest
King of Prussia Gazette Spring 2013
Salute to Ed Dybicz and Joseph Dorazio
Upper Merion Abolitionists
The King of Prussia Inn (poem by Joseph Dorazio)
The Kennedy Supplee Mansion
The King of Prussia Gazette Winter 2012 Issue
St. Lucia Feast in Upper Merion (Old Swedes)
Christmas at Valley Forge, 1777
The Woodland Chapel
Christmas in Early Upper Merion
New Year’s Day in Early Upper Merion
The King of Prussia Gazette Fall 2012 Issue
Rebirth of the Society
Swedesburg’s Tricentennial
First National Thanksgiving Day
Potts’ Landing at Swedeland