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A presidential order signed by Abraham Lincoln four days before he was assassinated has been found in an old writing desk and is now being…
Pennsylvania’s oldest house is over 300 years old, built around 1640.
It’s also in Delaware County, on Creek Road in Drexel Hill, writes…
A Haverford College project is working to determine what happened to 413 formerly enslaved African Americans who were contractually freed by Quaker guarantees known as…
A historic Black Concord church is seeing new life again after a fire destroyed it 27 years ago, reports KYW via CNN Newsource.
The Spring…
John B. Kelly of Drexel Hill likes to time travel back to Colonial America for Christmas.
A 1776 Christmas, to be specific, writes Maria Pownall…
Demolition on the 246-year-old Concordville Inn in Glen Mills has begun with a portion of it down before the Thanksgiving holiday, writes Emma…
As a state that has had a presence in the United States since its earliest days, its largest city — Philadelphia — has its share of historic…
In 1870, Philadelphia inventor Henry Heyl displayed among the first demonstrations of a projected moving picture, writes Avi Wolfman-Arent for Billy Penn at WHYY…
Today, green bean casserole is one of the most famous Thanksgiving dishes in America and while there are many variations of the dish, the woman…
General Anthony Wayne — after whom Wayne in Chester County is named — might have been notorious during his life, but it is his post-mortem adventures…
A Penn Charter-era red oak that had existed in Collingdale for hundreds of years was taken down Thursday and Friday after it was diagnosed…
A 107-year-old steam engine locomotive built in 1916 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and later Eddystone, is back in service now on…
A new Netflix series will include an episode looking at a secret mission that involved a Chester shipbuilding company and the recovery of a sunken…
Swarthmore College and Haverford College are helping to create a digitized record showing the trauma Native American youth experienced by being forced to attend nine…
(This article first appeared in DELCO.Today on April 8, 2016.)
Robert Wittman, the head of the FBI’s art-crime team in Philadelphia, has…
Nine years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials took place, a Delaware County woman faced her own witch trial in Philadelphia, writes Kenny Cooper for…
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