Historic
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This Warminster-Area Landmark is One of Bucks County’s Oldest General Stores
The Ivyland Country Store, a Warminster-area landmark for over 150 years, is one of Bucks County’s oldest general stores and cherished borough treasure, writes Dino Ciliberti for the Patch. Geff Rapp, chairman of Ivyland’s 150th Anniversary Committee, noted that while the store’s owners and offerings have changed over time, it remains deeply rooted in the…
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Pottsgrove Manor: Home to Checkered Legacy of Pottstown’s Founder
The Pottsgrove Manor, once the home of John Potts, the founder of Pottstown, is widely regarded as an incredible piece of architecture, reports Todd Haas for 6abc. The residence was built in 1752 for Potts, who was a highly successful iron master. The home has three full stories, an attic, a basement, as well as…
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Brooklyn Concrete Magnate Wants to Save SS United States from Becoming Artificial Reef, Has Another Idea in Mind
While plans are already in place to turn the SS United States into an artificial reef, Quadrozzi Concrete is making a last-ditch effort to save it, writes Ryan Erik King for Jalopnik. The Brooklyn-based concrete magnate wants to instead convert it into an office space. After a dispute over $800,000 in back rent, the SS…
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SS United States Cost Various Owners Over $40M During Its Time in Philadelphia
The SS United States has cost its various owners over $40 million during the nearly three decades it has been docked in Philadelphia, write Ximena Conde and Nick Vadala for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The former luxury cruise liner, slated to be sunk into the Florida Panhandle to become an underwater tourist attraction, once hosted major…
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Hidden in Plain Sight: This Bucks County Borough Boasts 150-Plus Years of Victorian Charm and History
Neatly tucked in the borders of Warminster and Northampton townships is the small community of Ivyland Borough, almost hiding in plain sight as commuters on Jacksonville and Bristol roads zoom by on their daily excursions. Even people who have lived in central Bucks County for years are surprised to find this quaint neighborhood of Victorian…
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Philadelphia Historical Commission Decides Against Preserving The Roundhouse
The Philadelphia Historical Commission recently voted against preserving The Roundhouse as part of the city’s register of historic places, writes Aaron Moselle for WHYY. The Roundhouse building has stood at its spot on 7th and Race streets for more than 60 years, and was the former home of the Philadelphia Police Department. As a result…
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Historic Phoenixville Attorney Helped Rutherford B. Hayes Retain White House in 1876 Election
Phoenixville attorney Isaac Wayne MacVeagh helped Rutherford B. Hayes retain the White House in the 1876 Election Race amid allegations of voter fraud in three Southern states, writes Mark E. Dixon for the Main Line Today. MacVeagh attended the Freeland Seminary (now Ursinus College) before earning his law degree from Yale University in 1853. After…
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Series of Short Films Aims to Preserve New Hope’s LGBTQ+ History
A series of five short documentaries produced by New York-based studio TRAVERSE32 aims to preserve New Hope’s rich LGBTQ+ history, writes Rosa Cartagena for The Philadelphia Inquirer. One of the films, Don’t Cry For Me All You Drag Queens, focuses on “Mother,” or Joseph (Josie) Cavallucci, a Philadelphia native who moved to New Hope in…
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With Future of Diamond Theater in North Philadelphia Uncertain, Admirers Are Racing to Save It
The Diamond Theater in North Philadelphia is facing an uncertain future, with its admirers racing against the clock to save the historic building, writes Kyle Bagenstose for Hidden City. Built in 1922, the structure served as a theater for around 50 years. At one point, the theater changed its name to Teatro Puerto Rico to…
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Philadelphia Is Where Edgar Allan Poe’s Writing Flourished
Despite a lifetime of living in the Philadelphia area … and 15 years of living downtown itself … I’d never visited the Edgar Allan Poe house. Until recently. My motivation: a New York group heading for Philly wanted to tour the site. So, before they came, on a recent rainy Friday afternoon, I walked up to…
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SS United States Leaves Philadelphia Home of Nearly Three Decades
The SS United States hosted a small event over the weekend to bid farewell to its Philadelphia home of nearly three decades as it heads to Florida for semi-retirement, writes Ximena Conde for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The SS United States Conservancy and Florida officials from Okaloosa County marked the occasion with a small transfer-of-title ceremony…
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This Cult From the Late 1600s Was Born in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania is the birthplace of several unusual cults and religious groups and one in particular was born in Philadelphia, writes Kalena Thomhave for The Keystone. Among the first doomsday cults in the New World is tied to the woods of the Wissahickon Valley in Philadelphia. This cult is the Society of the Woman in the…
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New Historical Marker in Springfield Honors First Woman to Practice Law in Pennsylvania
The new Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission historical marker recently unveiled and dedicated in Springfield honors attorney Caroline Burnham Kilgore, the first woman to practice law in Pennsylvania, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. Born in 1838, Kilgore was a trailblazer and legal scholar. She fought for 14 years to achieve her right to…
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Downingtown Now Has a Sister City in the United Kingdom
Downingtown has linked to Bradninch Devon in the United Kingdom as a sister city, writes Bill Rettew for The Daily Local News. Downingtown was named after Thomas Downing II, who also resided in the town’s new sister city. He left Bradninch in the early 18th century and emigrated to the U.S. The sister city mission…
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SS United States to Find New Home, Underwater As An Artificial Reef
Just days after a judge temporarily halted a court-imposed deadline for the SS United States to vacate its dock in South Philadelphia, the once famed cruise liner has found its new home. But this time it will be underwater, writes Joe Holden for CBS News Philadelphia. At a meeting in Okaloosa County in Florida in…
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Early Movie Projector Landed Its Inventor Prestigious Franklin Award, But Over Thomas Edison’s Protests
An early movie projector created by C. Francis Jenkins landed the inventor a prestigious Franklin Institute award and caused a dispute between the museum and Thomas Edison, writes Kristin Hunt for PhillyVoice. Jenkins first presented his Phantoscope at the Franklin Institute in 1895, where he proceeded to stun its distinguished guests with its sharper images…
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Washington Square West is Now Philadelphia’s Newest Historic District
On Friday, September 13, the Philadelphia Historical Commission voted to make Washington Square West a historic district with a unanimous 9-0 with one abstention, writes Raymond Strickland for CBS News Philadelphia. Tami Sortman of the Washington Square West Civic Association is elated because she has spent years pushing to get that designation. “You can’t get…
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Okaloosa County’s Plan to Acquire, Sink the SS United States Hits Snags as Vote is Delayed
It was announced in early September that Okaloosa County, Florida, had signed an agreement to acquire the SS United States. The plan was to move the historic ocean liner and move it, sink it to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and potentially turn it into the world’s largest artificial reef in Destin-Fort Walton…
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