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Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation Newsletter – Summer 2022

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on May 13, 2022 in | Comments Off Topics in the Summer 2022 Newsletter: PHMC Curators Highlight Objects from Collections Rachel Yerger on Sugar Tongs from Cornwall Iron Furnace Jennifer Royer on the Undertaker’s Sleigh at Landis Valley PHF Announces New Board Members PHF-newsletter...
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A Dynasty Tumbles

Posted by Jan Habecker on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off The saga begins and ends with two commonplace scenes: a teenaged immigrant alighting a ship in colonial Philadelphia with but two letters of introduction and three guineas to his name, and a gravesite ringed by a half-dozen black-clothed mourners. But during the century and a half that encapsulates these vignettes, a Pennsylvania dynasty rose and fell- and rose and fell again. From Robert...
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A Blast from the Past: Cornwall Iron Furnace

Posted by Sharon Silverman on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Driving on narrow sinuous back roads through lush, verdant forests – just a half dozen miles north of the busy Pennsylvania Turnpike – unsuspecting travelers can’t help being struck by an odd-looking complex of Gothic Revival-style buildings and structures. This place, this curious collection of buildings, both large and small, appears to have been literally plucked from a far...
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The Pennsylvania Archives Turns 100! An Interview with State Archivist Frank M. Suran

Posted by Leonard Stout on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off 2003 marks the centennial of the Pennsylvania State Archives, the oldest component of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the Commonwealth’s official history agency, and State Archivist Frank M. Suran knows its history better than anyone else. An archivist’s responsibilities include a multitude of tasks. Suran discusses his beginnings at the State Archives,...
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