Sunday, November 18, 2012
Lansdale Historical Society presented "Revitalization Through the Years" last week, which looked at development projects then and now
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
"Revitalization" is a term that has been associated with Lansdale’s shopping district since the days of Elvis, poodle skirts and tail fins. You see it, hear it and read about it today with Madison Lot redevelopment, 311 W. Main St., the Lansdale Collaborative Project, The Pavilion, Wood-Vine Connector and so on. But the idea of improving the center of town goes back far beyond that — all the way to the Victorian Age. The Lansdale Historical Society addressed this controversial topic at a program entitled "Revitalization Down Through the Years" Tuesday night at the Lansdale Parks and Recreation Building. "Almost from the beginning Lansdale was a town waiting to be rebuilt," said society President Dick Shearer, one of the narrators of the …
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Janeal Jaroh, former educational curator of the Cumberland County Historical Society, took residents on a trip back in time Tuesday.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The Lansdale Historical Society concluded its 2011 Community Program schedule Tuesday with “The World War II Trunk Show” at the Lansdale Parks and Recreation building. Janeal Jaroh, former educational curator of the Cumberland County Historical Society, told stories of courage and sacrifice occurring on two fronts, Europe and America. “I’m not a traditional historian,” Jaroh said. “I’m not interested so much in dates, what have you. I’m looking for the big connections, the why. Why should you care about World War II?” Her answer came as no surprise to anyone even remotely familiar with the war: “Everything was different when it was over,” she said. Food, fashion, work, education, manufacturing—in short, everything. “Take college, for …
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Wachovia Bank, soon to become Wells Fargo Bank, shows its support of Lansdale through a historic display
Historic Lansdale has been taken to new heights recently. Walk into the Wachovia Bank on West Main Street in Lansdale – which will be come Wells Fargo Bank on April 16 – and you’ll find the Lansdale Athletic Association football team from 1894 staring down at you, including football pioneer Amos Alonzo Stagg. There’s also the Lehigh Valley transit trolley and the Montgomery Traction Company trolley captured through the lens at Susquehanna Avenue and West Main Street in 1902. In the background is the First National Bank of Lansdale. Coincidentally, that is the same location where these pictures are now featured, as part of a mural dedicated to Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The mural was installed March 15. These murals are part of a corporate …
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Mike Hart, of Hartland Demolition and Restoration, will be given the 2011 Edwin G. Holl Historic Achievement Award for saving historic structures in Montgomery and Bucks counties.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Preservationist Mike Hart, of Lower Salford, will receive the seventh annual Edwin G. Holl Historic Achievement Award at the Lansdale Historical Society’s annual banquet April 19. Hart, owner of Hartland Demolition and Restoration Co., has intervened to save dozens of historically-significant structures over the past decade, many of them in Montgomery and Bucks counties. He is the founder of the nonprofit Foundation for Historic Building Rescue, which was created to preserve historic architecture and enlighten the public to its value in our changing communities. In cases where structures cannot be saved intact, the foundation dismantles them and reuses the materials. A recent example is the former Salford Station railroad bridge, which …
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