Lost and Found

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lost and Found Lost The Middle Creek Hydroelectric Dam, located three miles south of Selinsgrove, in eastern Snyder County, a significant example of a timber crib dam and small electric generating station, was typical of early rural electrification efforts in the United States. It was also a major component of a plan to modernize and promote an economically depressed area. George W. Wagenseller, a resident of...
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Chester Waterside Station, Chester, Delaware County

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Chester Waterside Station, Chester, Delaware County Standing on the west bank of the Delaware River in the city of Chester is the Delaware County Electrical Company building, a former coal-fired electric generation plant. Channels on either side of this neoclassical style building allowed coal to be delivered by river barges up into the towers. The building was designed in 1916 by architect John T. Windrim and engineered by Philadelphia Electric...
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Sacred Places in Pennsylvania: Signs of Religious Freedom and Diversity

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Sacred Places in Pennsylvania: Signs of Religious Freedom and Diversity When William Penn established Pennsylvania, he did so in part to create a place where his own faith community, the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers), could worship freely, just as the Puritans did in Massachusetts and the Baptists in Rhode Island. But Penn went further – he established freedom for other faiths and creeds, welcoming one and all, regardless of their beliefs and...
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Our First Friends, the Early Quakers

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Our First Friends, the Early Quakers Armed with a charter granted by England’s King Charles II, William Penn (1644-1718) and one hundred travel-weary Quakers arrived in the New World aboard the Welcome on October 27, 1682, with the intention of establishing the founder’s “holy experiment,” a colony that would be free of the religious persecution they suffered abroad. Once safely docked in the Delaware Bay at...
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