Newtown Square's Hometown Monthly Magazine
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Author: Doug Humes

Boxmead Farm and Its Owners

Many old homes along the Main Line have names, such as Ardrossan and Foxcatcher. And…

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The West Chester Turnpike

After the Revolution, Delaware County did not exist. Chester County was huge, and its county…

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That’s So Delco!

Growing up in the 1960s, you did not refer to Delaware County as “Delco.” It…

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Happy 50th Birthday to the Newtown Library!

Marple and Newtown townships pooled resources in 1914 to establish a joint high school. In…

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The Man Who Owned Wyola

The house at Rt. 252 and St. David’s Road has come to us through generations….

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Who Put the Mills in Mill Hollow?

There is an enclave of private homes along Crum Creek in Newtown and Edgmont townships,…

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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…

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The Altar of Freedom

Researching the feature article on the 80th anniversary of D Day was a labor of…

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The Countess of Newtown Square, Part 2

Why did Leo Tolstoy’s daughter, Sasha, take up subsistence farming in a dilapidated farmhouse in Radnor?…

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The Countess of Newtown Square

In 1931, the Countess, a “broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez…

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