…bringing our past into the future
Haverford Township High School Class of February 1932 – PDF of page is available John Armstrong Catherine Bell Helen Bencker John Bower Jr Winifred Broadbent Edgar Brown Peter Buckley Rachel M Cannon Mary I Clark … Read more
Chichester School District Opened in: First Graduating Class: Location of Schools: Chichester High School 3333 Chichester Avenue Boothwyn, PA 19061 Chichester Middle School 725 Meetinghouse Road Boothwyn, PA 19061 Boothwyn Elementry 2128 Blueball Avenue Boothwyn, PA 19061 Opened in: 2010 Hilltop Elementry 400 Cherrytree Road Aston, PA 19014 New building opened in: 2009 Linwood Elementry … Read more
The Life of a Soldier With the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War I’ve been thinking about many in my family tree that served during the Civil War. Many served and returned home to grateful family members. Others went off to war and never returned home. My 3rd great uncle was one … Read more
Hebron CemeteryHebron TownshipPotter County, Pennsylvania Last Name First Name Middle Name Maiden Name Date of Birth Date of Death Age at Death Notes Allen Alta 1865 Dau. of Wesley & Ann Allen Allen Ann E. 1842 1909 Allen Sarah M. 28 April 1818 22 May 1896 … Read more
Hollenbeck CemeteryHebron TownshipPotter County, Pennsylvania Last Name First Name Middle Name Maiden Name Date of Birth Date of Death Age at Death Notes Bly Edgar M. March 18, 1891 47y 4m 18d. Bly Elonzo Unmarked Grave – Painted Hills Records Bly Sylvia B. May 28,1880 … Read more
CHAPTER XXXII THE CITY OF CHESTER In 1644 the present site of Chester, east of the creek of that name, was a tobacco plantation, occupied by farm servants in the employment of the Swedish company. About that time many of the colonists began to seek grants of the broad acres on the main land, and … Read more
CHAPTER XXXI BIRMINGHAM TOWNSHIP At the extreme southwestern end of Delaware County is Birmingham township, which in early days was pronounced as though written Brummagen. The Brandywine Creek constitutes the entire western boundary of the township. This stream was called by the Swedes Fiskekill, and the present name, by tradition, is asserted to have been … Read more
CHAPTER XXX BETHEL TOWNSHIP This municipal district, which was the smallest township in the original county of Chester, is about three miles in length and a mile and a half in breadth at the widest part, the whole area being scarcely five miles square, is mentioned as early as 1683,* and again at the court … Read more
CHAPTER XXIX ASTON TOWNSHIP Dr. Smith states that “this township probably derived its name from Aston, a village of Berkshire, England. . . . In 1686, Edward Carter, then a resident in what is now Aston, was appointed constable for Northley.”* The opinions of all our local historians agree in that the name of Northley … Read more
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