By Ed O’Dybicz 12 MAR 1986 March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day and this observance recalls a wee bit of Irish history. In the Swedesburg section of Upper Merion Township, there is a little road not more than a block long, between East Fourth Street and New Church Road, called “Bradley Street.” When Francis Bradley came to America from Ireland,
On Saturday, February 23, 2019, please visit the King of Prussia Historical Society’s table at the Upper Merion Township Library’s 20th Annual Celebration of Black History. We will display a partial timeline of freedom in our state and county with facts like these: 1750 – Slavery did exist in Upper Merion township. Specific evidence of this can be found in
By Ed Dybicz 6 July 1967 During World War II many people and organizations contributed various iron and steel items to community scrap drives for weapons manufacturing. But a suggestion by the Valley Forge Park Commission in 1942 to offer 40 cannons from the historic hillsides of Valley Forge for scrap purposes, drew an expression of indignation seldom heard from
From Dr. Hiram Corson This group, if group so few can be called, consisted of Jonathon Roberts and wife, of whom I have already spoken elsewhere, their four sons and their only daughter, Mrs. Sarah Tyson, William Jones and his wife, Rachel, and the two sons of William (by a former marriage), John and Rowland, the family of Rees Thomas