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Old York Road Historical Society

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Baist's Map Showing the Development of the City and Suburbs of Philadelphia, G. Wm. Baist, 1897

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515 Meetinghouse Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046

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Join us tomorrow, April 14th for the upcoming program “The Philadelphia Area Architecture of Horace Trumbauer” presented virtually on Zoom by OYRHS President, David Rowland at 7:30PM. Login information is available on the website. https://oldyorkroadhistory.org/virtual-lecture-instructions/
The Spring 2021 issue of “The Corridor” is now online. Check it out on our website. https://oldyorkroadhistory.org/the-corridor/
Join us on Zoom for the first of the 2021 lecture series as OYRHS Board Secretary Jim Rubillo presents "A Tragic Collision and its Connections to the Old York Road Area: Ohio River, 1868" on Wednesday, March 10th at 7:30PM. A link will be sent out to those on our emailing list, as well as posted on the website (link in bio) and on our Facebook page a day prior to the presentation.
From the OYRHS collection, on this day in history...
We found this ad, which seemed fitting for today’s weather forecast, in the collection of the personal papers of Col. Martin Evoy.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked 79 years ago that today is “a date which will live in infamy." The attack by the Japanese on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor formalized the United States’ entry in World War II. Many local men and women answered the call to defend their country and aid in the war effort, both locally and abroad.
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