Upper Dublin and Fort Washington, located to the northwest of Philadelphia, were part of William Penn's original land grant of 1681. The villages of Fitzwatertown, Jarrettown, Three Tuns, and Dreshertown developed to serve early settlers who worked as farmers and lime burners. Through vintage photographs collected by the Historical Society of Fort Washington from local sources, Fort Washington and Upper Dublin illustrates the area's transformation as new roads and railroads brought industry, grand country homes, and vacation retreats. Included are photographs of Dr. Richard Mattison's grand Lindenwold estate, homes built for his employees, and the water-tower house with its five twenty-thousand-gallon tanks perched above four apartments. The collection also includes photographs of several country inns and the now vanished community of Hoopeston.
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The Historical Society of Fort Washington was founded in 1935 to preserve local history. The society maintains a library and four-room museum at Clifton House, one of the former country hotels in Fort Washington State Park.
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One of the earliest settlements in Upper Dublin was located along the Sandy Run Creek, an area rich in limestone and iron ore. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Washington, Upper Dublin, Limekiln Pike, Bethlehem Pike, Susquehanna Road, Butler Pike, Three Tuns, George Bodenstein, Dreshertown Road, Fitzwatertown Road, Milton Bean, Temple University, William Penn, Clifton House, Eiliger Park, Jarrettown School, John Fitzwater, Madison Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Summit Avenue, Wilmer Atkinson, Ambler Road, Henry Houpt, Lindenwold Avenue, Potts Brothers New!
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One of the earliest settlements in Upper Dublin was located along the Sandy Run Creek, an area rich in limestone and iron ore. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Washington, Upper Dublin, Limekiln Pike, Bethlehem Pike, Susquehanna Road, Butler Pike, Three Tuns, George Bodenstein, Dreshertown Road, Fitzwatertown Road, Milton Bean, Temple University, William Penn, Clifton House, Eiliger Park, Jarrettown School, John Fitzwater, Madison Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Summit Avenue, Wilmer Atkinson, Ambler Road, Henry Houpt, Lindenwold Avenue, Potts Brothers New!
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- Fort Washington (MD) (Images of America) by Nathania Branch-Miles on 6 pages
- A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South (The Lyndhurst Series on the South) by Alex Harris on page 119
- West Germany (Countries of the World) by Barbara Einhorn on page 61
- Thomas Eakins by Darrel Sewell on page 94
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