Please join the King of Prussia Historical Society at 2:00 pm on Saturday, October 14, at Christ Church (Old Swedes) when Upper Merion High School Social Studies teacher, Matthew Mitchell, presents “The Eastburn Estate Restoration.“ The estate is located off of East Valley Forge Rd. It encompassed about 250 acres that were purchased from the Norris family during two different transactions in 1732
The first section of the King of Prussia Plaza opened September 18, 1962. It consisted of an Acme Supermarket and a 172,000 square feet, two-story E. J. Korvette department store, complete with air-conditioning and escalator service. E. J. Korvettes was among the first big anchor stores for the new King of Prussia Plaza shopping mall. A popular, and false, story
During our program on the history of Upper Merion Area Schools, we saw some examples of how the Bridgeport and Upper Merion high schools responded to World War II in their respective year books. In the 1943 Pioneer, the patriotism of the entire school community was evident in the reflections plus the numerous war related graphics, eagles and flags. Perhaps
Here is another fact about our schools courtesy of the Historical Society of Montgomery County (www.hsmcpa.org) Thursday, 25 May 2017 The Old Gulf School Written by Nancy Sullivan, Archivist Here is a photograph that just came into the Historical Society of the old Gulf School. Yes, it is sometimes called the “Gulph” School, but the former spelling seems to have