Category: History Spotlight
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,…
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…
And Sweetly Breathes, “Forget Me Not!”
Over the weekend I drove up to Bucks County to pick up a donation to…
Governor Earle’s Crash Landing
Last month I was sitting in an exam room at Main Line Health on the…
The Milk Trolley
In the early days of West Chester Pike, farmers from Newtown Square and surrounding…
Notorious Fitz Captured
A voice from the grave, and a research notebook from preeminent Delaware County historian Hilda…
Sad Effects of Bad Company
On March 28, 1881, 19-year-old Newtown resident Robert Orr left home with a plan. From hisfather’s farm on the southern boundary of Newtown near Crum Creek, he walked to a neighbor’sproperty in Edgmont.