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Train
Enthusiasts Will Not Want to Miss this Lecture!
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"The Pennsylvania Railroad Stations of
Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships"
Guest Lecturer & Historian
~ Greg Prichard ~
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Thursday, April 9
7 PM Reception
7:30 PM Lecture
Duportail House, 297 Adams Drive, Chesterbrook
Tickets: $15
info: 610.647-1051
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Greg Prichard is an experienced designer, historian, and lecturer. He will talk about
several train stations of the Main Line, focusing on those in Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships. The
Main Line development began with the railroad as its commercial and social backbone, from the inns that depended on its patrons in the 1830s to the builders who clustered housing developments around train stations in the late 19th century. The stations were built as grand statements of corporate superiority and many remain as recognizable gateways to their communities.
Greg will speak about station architecture and history, myths vs. reality, the evolution and growth of the railroad in the area, and how past (and future) restoration efforts helped the stations to endure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Prichard is a native of Wayne, he pursued a master's degree in historic preservation planning at Cornell University, where his thesis explored the history and preservation issues relating to the historic train stations of the Main Line. His business, Prichard Design & History Studio (www.designandhistory.com), focuses on bringing historic sites to life through projects such as interpretive signs. He is a board member of both the Radnor Historical Society and the Tredyffrin-Easttown Historical Society.
Click here for Greg Prichard spring lecture flyer. Visit website, www.tredyffrinhistory.org to purchase tickets online using credit card. Call Polly Hagan, Lecture Chair at 610.647-1051 to reserve your seat(s).
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Covered Bridge Garden Club Supports the Jones Log Barn Rebuilding Project with a portion of their Annual Spring Plant Sale Proceeds!
- Your purchase of Spring plants from Covered Bridge Garden Club supports historic preservation! (see order for form below for details)
Since 1964 the Covered Bridge Garden Club has helped develop activities that educate and support home gardening and the horticultural experience for our club members and the surrounding Valley Forge, PA community.
Each Spring the Covered Bridge Garden Club holds an annual plant sale where they offer a wide variety of beautiful and colorful plants, patio pots, herbs, and hanging plants to dress up your back yard and patio. The Garden Club has selected to give a portion of their 2015 Spring Plant Sale proceeds to the Jones Log Barn via the 'Adopt-a-Log' program.
Visit the Covered Bridge Garden Club website for further information:
www.coveredbridge-gardenclub.com
Thank you Covered Bridge Garden Club for supporting Historic Preservation in our community!
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Historic Mt. Zion AME Church Named to the National Register of Historic Places
Congratulations to historic the Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church (
www.historicmtziondevon.org) in Devon on their recent selection to the National Register of Historic Places. A featured stop on the Trust's 8th Annual Historic House Tour in 2012,
Mt. Zion AME Church, is the oldest continuous African-American congregation of any denomination on the entire Main Line. The cornerstone of the church dates to 1861, with Mt. Zion roots dating to the Free African Society, a group of slaves and former slaves in the Philadelphia area. There are 20 members of the Civil War Colored Veterans buried in the adjacent cemetery.
Twenty years before the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education forced the policy of separate but unequal onto the national agenda, the families of 200+ African American children in Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships boycotted their own segregated schools. The families whose children were ordered into dilapidated school buildings for black students, fought the "school fight" and Mt. Zion AME Church was the central meeting place as they planned their battle - and won.
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Calling all Amazon shoppers ---
When you shop online using Amazon, we have a great way for your support historic preservation, that will not cost you a dime! You Shop, Amazon Gives to Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust!
Here are the easy steps:
- Click on this link: AmazonSmile .
- Log in to your Amazon Account when prompted.
- Choose "Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust" as your charity search.
- From now on when you shop Amazon, shop via this URL and the credit goes to the Trust. Save the address in your browser.
- There are no fees to do this as the purchaser or to the the Trust for participation. All fees are the same as the regular Amazon site. It doesn't cost you a dime to help!
- 0.5% of all purchases will be donated back to the Trust as a non-profit entity. This money will add up quickly!
Upon registering, or if you already have an Amazon account, you will receive a confirmation email back. It will also give you the option to share this easy way to support the Trust's historic preservation efforts via Facebook and Twitter. Click to share to your accounts and please pass on the word.
Happy Shopping -- And remember, when You Shop, Amazon Gives!
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A Few Remaining Copies ...
The Trust as a few remaining copies of the special anniversary publication,
'The Houses of R. Brognard Okie"
by architect and writer James Garrison. The publication celebrates the Okie houses featured on the 10th Annual Historic House Tour in 2014. Professional interior and exterior photographs of the houses are included, along with their important histories.
Copies are $10/ea. and will be available for purchase at the Spring lectures. Or you may contact Trust President Pattye Benson at info@tredyffrinhistory.org for purchase information.
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Historic preservation matters because it affects everyone, everywhere, whether or not we realize it or outwardly appreciate it. Historic preservation, of course, is about our heritage and how we remember the past; but it is so much more than that and
one of the ways that makes our community special. Thank you for supporting the Trust and our historic preservation efforts!
Pattye Benson
President
Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust
Tel: 610.644.6759
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Interior of Mt. Zion AME Church
