Today’s fight to use gender-inclusive pronouns is not the first time grammar has found itself in the middle of political discourse, as 17th-century Quakers also rebelled against the rules of... Read more
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 Adams for the Reading E... Read more
Caln Township residents are trying to find a way to prevent demolition of the historic Lloyd farmhouse, which “has a star-studded genealogy” and predates the birth of America, writes Vinny V... Read more
Margaret Mattson, the Swedish wife of a Delaware County farmer, was the infamous subject of the first and only witchcraft trial in Pennsylvania, writes William Kashatus for The Wilkes-Barre... Read more
The first real estate deed recorded in the original Chester County took place 330 years ago on March 10, 1688. The deed is for a Quaker meetinghouse now located in Chester. “As one of the fi... Read more
Hannah Callowhill Penn was Pennsylvania’s first and only female leader, and she ran the state for close to 14 years after her husband William Penn fell ill, writes Mónica Marie Zorrilla for... Read more
The full story of Indian Hannah shows that early settlers in Chester County did not treat the Native American as well as local legends indicate, writes Mark Dixon for Main Line Today. Hannah... Read more
Step back in time and relive history from the perspective of the commonwealth’s prominent founder in one of William Penn’s former family farmsteads. The four-bedroom fieldstone house at 378... Read more
