Author: Doug Humes
Boxmead Farm and Its Owners
Many old homes along the Main Line have names, such as Ardrossan and Foxcatcher. And…
The West Chester Turnpike
After the Revolution, Delaware County did not exist. Chester County was huge, and its county…
That’s So Delco!
Growing up in the 1960s, you did not refer to Delaware County as “Delco.” It…
Happy 50th Birthday to the Newtown Library!
Marple and Newtown townships pooled resources in 1914 to establish a joint high school. In…
The Man Who Owned Wyola
The house at Rt. 252 and St. David’s Road has come to us through generations….
Who Put the Mills in Mill Hollow?
There is an enclave of private homes along Crum Creek in Newtown and Edgmont townships,…
Clifford Douglas Murray, Jr. 2024 Newtown Square Friend & Neighbor of The Year!
Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors is proud to feature families, groups and individuals who make…
The Altar of Freedom
Researching the feature article on the 80th anniversary of D Day was a labor of…
The Countess of Newtown Square, Part 2
Why did Leo Tolstoy’s daughter, Sasha, take up subsistence farming in a dilapidated farmhouse in Radnor?…
The Countess of Newtown Square
In 1931, the Countess, a “broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez…
