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How much is your Spoerts Memorabilia worth? Find out on Saturday!

January 7, 2015, 6:08 pm
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The Darby Free Library first founded in 1743 is the oldest library in Delaware County by far.

 
 
 
Once again Ron Oser and The Mickey Vernon Sports History Museum are joining forces to help you answer that nagging question of

  "I wonder how much my Sports Memorabilia is worth?"

 If you  have an item or collection that could have moderate or considerable value, bring it to the Mickey Vernon Museum to have a knowledgeable estimate of your sport treasure's worth be given to you. 
Ron is a leading expert from the east coast offices of Huggins & Scott  (one of the country’s leading sports memorabilia auction houses located in Silver Spring, Md.), will be on site at the museum on

Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 12 noon to 2 pm

 

 

to share with you his thirty years of experience in the sports collectibles field. Whether you have sports cards, autographs, programs, ticket stubs, game used jerseys and equipment, or any other sports related pieces from the 1880s to 1980s. Ron specializes in giving a fair and realistic estimate of the current market value of any sports memorabilia that you have. He estimates that the value of the items presented to him for evaluation by individuals who visited the museum in 2014 had a total value of over $100,000. He was so impressed with the quality and significance of the items presented that he looks forward to offering his services in 2015. For anyone interested,

RON WILL BE ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENT ITEMS FOR HUGGINS & SCOTT UPCOMING FEBRUARY 2015 AUCTION
 

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Ridley Creek State Park The Colonial Plantation Winter Experince!!

January 17, 2015, 7:21 pm
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"Winter Experience "
Saturday, January 24 and 31
11:00- 2:00
Admission is $10.00 for adults and $8.00 for children ages 4 to 12.
Children under 4 are admitted free of charge.
 
Winter is upon us and the farm life slows down however our animals still need care and many of them need to do work. Get involved or watch the farmer go about her winter routines. Horses need to pull logs for firewood. The working steer needs to move manure to the crop field and the cow needs to be milked. There will be hearth cooking, woodworking, blacksmith, spinning, warm cider in the parlor, and candle making. Reservations are required. There will be a fire to warm yourself but it is advisable to dress for the weather.

Schedule
.11:30 – Horses– Watch our draft horse pull a log for splitting and then try to saw a log for firewood. Learn the difference between a draft horse and a riding horse.
12:30 – Ox– Manure needs to be moved to the crop field. Help fill up the sled and watch our young work steer pull the sled.
1:30 – Cows– Time for milking and meet our two baby calves, both less than two months old.
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Colonial Plantation Summer Camp, Never too early

January 24, 2015, 3:51 pm
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This picture is believed to be in the Aston Area. Please take a look and share
Looking for location and address
 
 
 

Ridley Creek State Park

Colonial Plantation

 
 
NEW - Pirates, Spies & Rogues Summer Camp
 
We don't know about you, but we here at the Plantation have certainly been thinking a lot about summer lately! We're excited to announce a brand new summer camp session called "Pirates, Spies and Rogues" for ages 7 - 13. We'll also have our flagship "Colonial Life" camp and the second year of our "Native Americans and the Natural World" camp, for ages 7-13 and 9-13. 


You can read more about our summer camp sessions and download a registration form on our website:


Also on the webpage is an easy-to-read grid on which camps are available for your child's age group to help you pick the right camp!

 
 
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Sharing history well

January 29, 2015, 6:21 pm
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As you can see this picture is from Rose Valley. Looking for an address
 
 

Sharing history well

 

  The old expression, " I didn't share well as a child" is applying to me a lot more these days. As a 40 year collector of Delaware County memorabilia and counting the new generation of "collectors" do not understand. They say they want a "copy" and I say sure it will cost you this much, they are dumbfounded. Why should "I" pay? they say, well I did. No one gave me my extensive collection, it took years of collection and thousands of dollars. The "right click" generation does not seem to get it. When the internet, face book first came out it was great to post pictures and hear the comments. Then I saw my pictures on other sites and other people claiming it was "their" picture. Yeah that right click thing again. Some people have been nice and have asked permission, but most do not, they just take it. Then they wonder why you get upset. My friends who are serious collectors all have their stories. The college student who wanted to copy all my friends work and pictures for his school paper, no credit, no nothing and just could not understand why my friend would not just give it to him. I turn people down all the time and they just do not get or care of all the time, work and money it cost to put my collection together. The funniest and yet scariest was the lecture I want to several years ago. My buddy was talking and showing pictures about Delaware County transportation, trollies etc. My buddy is in his early 70's still in good shape and after the talk we were standing around he was answering questions talking to different people. All of a sudden he ran over to his computer were a young guy was standing. My buddy said nothing and hit the guy so hard he decked him and this guy was 40 some odd years younger. At first no one understood what was going on, the young guy just got up and ran out of the building. Then we saw it. He had been using a portable hard drive to try and steal all my friends pictures and luckily he had spotted the thief from across the room just in time. So next time you want a historical picture? just ask and bring some cash. I do share.
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How old is your organization? and cooking at the Colonial Plantation

February 7, 2015, 6:03 am
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Does anyone recognize this street scene? I have no idea. Thanks




How old is your church, organization??

 
 The age of any organization is open to personal judgment, every organization has different criteria on how old they are. Churches are the worst, some churches base they age on when their dedication was held or when their church was chartered. I always base the age of a organization when  the first meeting was held to get things going. My church, Prospect Methodist dates the church to June 1879 when the church was dedicated. But meetings and church services began to be held in the fall of 1877. Another church bases it's founding on when the church officially selected it's official name and was organized. But for 6 months before the "official name" the church went by another one. Even official records can be deceiving. The one church had the first minute book of the first meeting in March of 1889 and that was the date they used as the churches founding. Correct? Not exactly. While doing some other research I discovered the church had actually started meeting 4 months before. The newspaper had dates of the meetings and where etc. The problem?  no one took any minutes for the first four months.
  Fire companies can be difficult too. Many companies base their age on when the company was chartered which is not correct. One fire chief thought I was crazy when I told him his company was two years older than the date on the company emblem. When I showed him newspaper articles that the company had a home, equipment and was fighting fires two years before the charter was signed and filed he was shocked.
  The Masons of Prospect Park trace the age of their organization to 1889 when the cornerstone of their building was laid. I asked one of them if a group of men who did not know each other, met one day and decided to build a home? sure. So how old is your organization?
 

Colonial Plantation

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Ridley Creek State Park

Join us for our first workshop of the year and learn to cook a whole meal from start to finish in our kitchen!
Colonial Cooking WorkshopSaturday, February 21st10 AM - 3 PM
$25 members/volunteers $35 nonmembers
Limit 10 participants. Must register in advance! Call me at the office: 610-566-1725

Thanks!Joy

Joy Scott
Office Manager

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation
610-566-1725



 

  

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How old is your house? and the Dark Lens of Vietnam in Newtown this week

February 15, 2015, 10:04 am
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This house is from Rose Valley looking for an address or location



 


How old is your house ?

 
   The older a house is the harder it is to determine a date of erection. Title searching is still
the only way to go unless you are blessed and your house has a date stone. Today I want to
talk about post Civil War housing. Doing a title search at the court house is not hard and on
the bottom of your current deed it will tell when the person you bought the house from and
when it was purchased and it will also give you the book and page. All you have to do is just
go back till when your house was built. The deed will mention just a lot and the price for
just a lot will be in the hundreds not  thousands of dollars. The price is the best way along
with reading the deed itself. But many people do not realize just because people bought an
empty lot does not mean they built the house right away. They might have waited months and
even years before building. So how do you find out? The local newspaper. All local
newspapers prior to 1950, and that is a very approximate date, newspapers had all
the  local information inside. Besides all the local gossip, local building and owners
 and builders were very important. I have worked with many local papers but
the Morton Chronicle is one of the best for south central DelawareCounty.
The editor covered all the local building news from Chester to Darby and all the
way to Media. The Morton Chronicle newspaper spoke of when the building began,
who the builder was and home owner and sometimes even the architect for the building.
In some cases I found out what day the home owner moved in. The Chester Times
also carries all this information. Beginning  circa. 1890 the Times had separate
columns on different towns and townships and discussed everything from birthday
parties, vacations to buildings. So if you are looking for that date when your house
was built or just that odd bit of information check the local newspapers, many are on
line thru the DelawareCountylibrary system website. There were  many other local newspapers
that no longer exist today. The Delaware County Historical Society has the most at their
museum in Chester and they are being scanned and digitized and in many cases being
made searchable. So take a look, you may be very surprised.
 

Newtown Historical Society

Presents

"The Dark Lens of Vietnam"

on February 18

at 7:30 pm

40 years after the fall of Saigon, join popular MNHS history teacher Arch Hunter who will speak on "The Dark Lens of Vietnam". He will review the background history of Indochina through WWII, and the colonial war of Ho Chi Minh & the French. He then picks up on the initial involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam from the Geneva Conference of 1954 thru the fall of Saigon in 1975. Most of the focus will be placed on our military involvement, the role of our military , and the misconceptions of the American public about our military in Vietnam, concluding with how the experience of Vietnam has clouded the "Vietnam Era" generation.

And, if time permits , what lessons did we learn from the Vietnam War? It is a topic that stirs up old divisions among those who lived through the era. With 40 years of hindsight, have we moved closer to a consensus on Vietnam, or will that judgment be made by future generations?All programs are held at the Dunwoody Village auditorium, 3500 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA  19073 beginning at 7:30 p.m.  
Admission is free.  Refreshments are served.  Come out and meet your history minded neighbors and learn and be entertained! 


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Hidden Collections Initiative of Delaware County

February 22, 2015, 1:04 pm
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Delaware County Historic Preservation Network presents

Hidden Collections Initiative to DelawareCounty

Wednesday, Feb. 25at 7:00 p.m.

 

DelawareCountyGov'tCenterBuilding,County Council Meeting Room, 201 W Front Street, Media, PA

Hundreds of small archival repositories in the five-county Philadelphia region hold thousands of individual collections documenting a wide range of topics and geographic areas. Private, non-profit organizations with a history-based mission or that have historically significant archival collections, that agree to make their archives available to the public, and that do not employ a full-time, professionally trained archivist are eligible for participation in the project.
Project staff identify small archival repositories in the Philadelphia area, survey and assess their archival collections, and create summary finding aids to these collections. The finding aids are made publicly accessible in an online database developed by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL). Within this single online resource, researchers may search collections held at a wide range of Philadelphia-area archival repositories, from the smallest all-volunteer organizations to the largest professional institutions.
In 2013, DCHPN introduced representatives of the Hidden Collections Initiative to DelawareCounty historic groups and outlined the services they could offer.  Join us for this presentation on the collections in DelawareCountythat have been cataloged and find out how your organization can be involved in the Initiative’s continuing effort to add additional collections to the online database. Participating organizations receive a report on improving their collection.
An added bonus to the event will be a display of unique and rare DelawareCountybooks and artifacts from Keith Lockhart's collection for everyone to enjoy before the event as you mingle with colleagues and friends. Give will give a 5 minute talk at 645 about some of the items.
 
Free and open to all.  Please register at hallj@co.delaware.pa.us or 610-891-4910. 
Refreshments will be served

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February 22, 2015, 1:04 pm
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HIDDEN COLLECTIONS INITIATIVE FOR PENNSYLVANIA SMALL ARCHIVAL REPOSITORIES:
THE RESULTS SO FAR…

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Join the Delaware County Preservation Network on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7pm in County Council Chambers in the Media Courthouse, side entrance, for this free event.  Come out to this program and find out how to participate.  And if your are not a site or a society, come out and find out how to access and use this great resource. Doors open at 6:30pm.  Meter parking is free and plentiful at this time of night. The Hidden Collections Initiative Program is just the ticket you have been looking for!  Refreshments will be served!   https://www.facebook.com/events/1004076339621667

 
Every local historical society and site has interesting history stored away in boxes at their site...photos, documents, memorabilia, etc.  Wouldn't it be cool if someone got funding from a huge foundation and sent professional archivists out to each site to survey them, make finding aids, put them all in a central searchable date base and then issued a FREE report to each participating site recommending how they can better organize and preserve what each site has?  Yes, that would be cool!  AND it is happening!

Now is the time to get onboard and take advantage of this rare opportunity before the funding dries up.
 

Local Historian and long time Delaware County collector, Keith Lockhart will display some rare items from his collection, including "The Society for the Prevention of Horse Thieves" in Haverford and Radnor Township in the 1850's plus more. Keith will be displaying his items at 64:5 sharp and give a 5 minute talk before the main talk starts


 


 
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History of Ridley Township Part one this Wednesday

March 1, 2015, 2:12 pm
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The Glenolden Mill c. 1890
 
 
History of RidleyTownship - Part 1
March 4 at 6:30 pmLocal historian Keith Lockhart will present the early history of RidleyTownship in Part 1 of a two-part series. Did you know that Glenolden, ProspectPark, Norwood, Eddystone and other boroughs were once part of the Township? Learn these and other little-known facts in this presentation, illustrated with original photographs. Keith Lockhart is a lifelong Ridley resident, who maintains 2 websites on local history. Part 1 ...of this series will focus on the early history of RidleyTownship. Part 2 will focus on the later history of the Township.

This free program will be held Wednesday, March 4th at 630 pm in Garling Hall in the RidleyTownshipMunicipalBuilding at 100 E. MacDade Blvd. Folsom.
There are 75 spaces available - Contact: Mary Tobin 610-583-0593 reference@ridleylibrary.org

 

 

 

Part two will be on

 Wednesday March 18 at 6:30 pm

 
 
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Chadds Ford lecture this Tuesday

March 7, 2015, 4:33 pm
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It's Colwyn looking for a street and 100 block Thank You!!
 
 
 

Spring Lecture Series
Chadds Ford Historical Society
(Chadds Ford, PA) – Chadds Ford Historical Society will host a series of Lectures this coming spring so please mark your calendars. All lectures are on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Chadds Ford Historical Society’s Barn Visitors Center. Free for Chadds Ford Historical Society members. $10 suggested donation for nonmembers.

March 10:

Lecture and book signing by Gary Pendleton.

“100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid Atlantic.
Gary Pendleton is a noted plein air painter and illustrator. He has passion for art, nature and art history. Over the past two years, he combined these three passions into a book “100 Plein Painters of the Mid Atlantic After participating in oils for a number of years, Gary began exploring painting outdoors, en plein air, the scenes he saw everyday around the, the country side and the Chesapeake Bay, inspired him to join the Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association and in 2010 he was elected president of the association. He has participated in numerous plein air events across the Mid Atlantic including the Chadds Ford Historical Society’s Annual winter plein air event.

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History of Ridley Township talk part 2

March 14, 2015, 7:17 am
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The Morton Morton House and gardening PLUS Easter Egg Hunt!!

March 20, 2015, 5:31 pm
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Looking for an address a Newtown Twp. home c.1918

 

The 1696 Thomas Massey House
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Marple Historical Society
Present
The 1750 Morton Morton House
A presentation by Judy Anastasi President of the Norwood Historical Society
7:30 March 24th
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Marple Christian Church
475 Lawrence Rd. Broomall
For information 610-353-4967

 
 

Chadds Ford Historical Society
(Chadds Ford, PA) – Chadds Ford Historical Society will host a series of Lectures this coming spring so please mark your calendars. All lectures are on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Chadds Ford Historical Society’s Barn Visitors Center. Free for Chadds Ford Historical Society members. $10 suggested donation for nonmembers.

March 24,

Lecture by Chuck Feld

The History of Horticulture in America, Part II, 1750 to 1925
By the mid 1700’s the wealthy were planting gardens with native plants and new plants from Europe. Nurseries were coming big business supplying fruit trees, vegetable seeds, and ornamentals. Mc Mahon Nursery in Philadelphia was one of the leaders in the seed and nursery business. Lewis and Clark returned from the West with new plants, and seed which M’Mahon propagated and sold to the influent gardener.
Washington and Jefferson in the post-revolutionary period were leaders in new agriculture practices including compost, and manures as fertilizer. Perhaps greatest progress in agriculture in the first third of the nineteenth century was the westward spread of the industry. The lecture will include Mount Vernon, Monticello, the mulberry and the silk worm, the Shaker’s seed business.

 


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Colonial Plantation Opens this Weekend!!!

March 26, 2015, 5:56 pm
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Still looking for this home. The Davidson Mansion in the Clifton Heights area
 
 
 

Colonial Plantation

Opening Day - March 28 "The Best Our Pretty Farm Affords" Training Calves (12:00), Milking Cow (3:00), Colonial Coins, Textiles, Blacksmith, Woodworking, Hearth Cooking, Colonial Games and Farm Animals. Click here for more information.

March 29th - Steer Training (12:00), Milking (3:00), House, Tours, Farm Tours, Hearth Cooking and Blacksmith.

 
 
 
 
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The History of the Delaware River

April 4, 2015, 7:33 pm
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May all my readers have a wonderful Easter!
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My Haverford Talk this week and to Delco baseball boys exhibit

April 19, 2015, 7:14 pm
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First Ladies of Rock and Soul this weekend!!! To benefit Delaware County Historical Society

April 30, 2015, 5:25 pm
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Antique Show Concert and talk this coming week!

May 7, 2015, 7:11 pm
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The Bowen Home in Folcroft is all I know.
Looking for an address
 
 

Spring has come to Aston! 

And Aston Township Historical Society

welcomes the extremely popular historian, Nancy Webster,

 to their May 14th meeting

to speak on

"Aston in Bloom....from feeding the family to feeding the soul!" 
Ms. Webster will speak about Colonial gardens "for meat and medicine" to early-mid 19th century ornamental gardens on the farm, plus touching on arbortea efforts.  She will also regal us on the differences between Colonial and Colonial Revival interpretations of the past.  As always, there will be time for questions and answers following Ms. Webster's talk.
The doors open at 6:30pm and the event begins at 7pm at the Aston Township Municipal Building, rear entrance.  The building is located just south of 5 Points, next to TD Bank in Aston on Pennell Road aka Route 452. 
This event is free and open to the public.  Donations are welcome.  ATHS offers many engaging volunteer opportunities. 
Aston Township Historical Society can also provide a home for your unwanted artifacts and old pictures.  Copies of old pictures are much appreciated, too! 
As a courtesy reminder, it is ATHS membership renewal time.
Please join ATHS and Nancy Webster for an enjoyable and fascinating evening!

Colonial Plantation

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Ridley Creek State Park

May 9th -Tea Workshop (registration needed) , Farm Tours, House Tours, Hearth Cooking, Garden Tours and Colonial Toys

May 10th - Farm Tours, House Tours, Blacksmith, and Colonial Toys

May 16th - Spring Concert featuring "Third Man In" and "Vulcans" Click here for details

  1. FEATURED BAND:
    Third Man In

    Come see them perform at our annual 
    concert on Saturday, May 16th at 2 PM!


    Third Man In will have 2 sets:
    1st set - Classic rock covers
    2nd set - The 1st Doors album

    You can preview/follow them here:
     
 

 

 

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A Ball in Chester next month!!

May 21, 2015, 2:19 pm
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You have to be pretty old to remember when Morton had a movie theatre and was "Home of the Talkies"

Not much going on this week in local history as Memorial Day approaches, But early June has some nice things coming up!
 
 
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Civil War Ball and Fort Mifflin PLUS Tinicum Community Day!!

May 31, 2015, 7:11 am
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Newtown Square Day Tommorrow and Chester Civil War Ball tomorrow!!

June 5, 2015, 7:20 am
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