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In his younger days, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland.
He studied there from 1948 until…
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…
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…
After 30 years of sitting dormant and mostly unused, the SS United States on South Philadelphia’s Delaware River waterfront has a proposal for its…
The historic Lansdowne movie theater will reopen in the fall of 2024 as a regional concert venue following a one-year $18 million construction project…
CashNetUSA has declared a Delaware County community to be the most expensive neighborhood in all of Pennsylvania, writes Matt DiSanto for Centre Daily Times.
The…
Saint Joseph Place, the new 50-apartment housing community for seniors, opened Monday in the historic St. Joseph’s Elementary School in Collingdale, which closed…
In mid-May, two historic Catholic elementary school buildings in Collingdale will turn into senior housing, but before that happens, alumni of St. Joseph Parish…
With climate change comes more severe weather and devastating floods that tend to go along with it.
The nation’s floodplains are expected to grow…
After having undergone an extensive renovation, the West Whiteland Inn, which boasts an illustrious history that predates the Declaration of Independence and is listed on…
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Walt Disney, Hollywood visionary, was born Dec. 05, 1901, and the proximity of that date today recalls a…
Beyond the intended purpose for cemeteries, they are a natural refuge from the concrete and asphalt of urban and suburban life, places like Eden Cemetery…
A time capsule from July 11, 1895 could help reconstruct parts of the Third Presbyterian Church in Chester, writes Colin Ainsworth for the Daily Times…
A group of volunteer surveyors is working on documenting the locations and conditions of Mason-Dixon Line markers to ensure they are not lost to…
This home at 530 Cedar Lane is available for sale at realtor.com in Swarthmore.
Welcome to “The Ogden House”. A date carved in the…
A Pennsylvania landmark in Upland Borough that could well be the oldest house in the commonwealth sits among failed factories and abandoned warehouses, writes Charles…
The former Third Presbyterian Church at 420 E. Ninth St., today home of the Chester Historical Preservation Committee, has cleared the most intensive step on…
Some forgotten African-American cemeteries in the region are about to get historical recognition, thanks to a pair of new statewide programs, writes Kristin Holmes…
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