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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGQ_the-atkinson-family_Maple-Glen-PA.html
Abolitionists Thomas and Hannah Atkinson and other members of Upper Dublin Friends Meeting conducted an Underground Railroad station at the farm next door. Individuals who escaped slavery are buried in the meetinghouse cemetery. Son Wilmer created…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGP_the-pennsylvania-school-of-horticulture-for-women_Maple-Glen-PA.html
This school was among the first in the nation to educate women for careers in horticulture and agriculture. It was founded in 1910 on this site by Jane Bowne Haines and a "congress of women." Three years later the Woman's National Farm and Garden …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LG1_gulph-mills-village_Wayne-PA.html
This house, built about 1780, was the old Bird-in-Hand General Store. Originally this area was named "Bird-in-Hand" for sign of a tavern that stood nearby. A building just SW of here was a forge. Like the store it later was converted into a reside…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LG0_camp-william-penn_PA.html
Here was Pennsylvania's only training camp for African American soldiers — and the largest of 18 in the nation — during the Civil War. Comprising over 10,000 men, 11 regiments of U.S. Colored Troops were trained here: the 3rd, 6th, 8th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFZ_delaware-monument_King-of-Prussia-PA.html
The State of Delaware erects this marker in memory of her gallant sons who endured the hardships and privations of the memorial winter of 1777-1778 on the hills of Valley Forge.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFY_rittenhouse-observatory_East-Norriton-PA.html
700 feet N.E. of this memorial stood the log cabin from which David Rittenhouse observed the transit of Venus June 3, 1769. Permission to use this site was given by Herbert T. Ballard, owner of this property.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFX_rittenhouse-farm_East-Norriton-PA.html
David Rittenhouse, born in 1732, lived here until 1770. Here he began his distinguished scientific career; and computed and observed the transit of Venus, 1769. Spent later years in Philadelphia, where he dies in 1796.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFW_edward-hector_Conshohocken-PA.html
Private in Captain Hercules Courtney's Company, Third Pa. Artillery, Continental Line, in the Battle of Brandywine. His home was in Conshohocken. He is symbolic of the many unknown Black soldiers who served in the American Revolution, but whose ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFV_lafayette_Lafayette-Hill-PA.html
On May 19-20, 1778, Lafayette, in his first independent command, occupied this position during reconnaissance with 2,000 troops, which were driven off by Howe's overwhelming British forces. On Howe's departure, Lafayette reoccupied Barren Hill unt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFU_st-peters-church_Lafayette-Hill-PA.html
Lutheran, founded 1752 by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. From steeple of original church, May 20, 1778, Gen. Lafayette gave orders for battle against British in old churchyard. Here he organized his famous retreat to Matson Ford, saving himself and 22…