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Posts and Content Directly from the historical source of Historic Yellow Springs. The Moore Archives is host to over 10,000 items of local historic significance.

Throwback Thursday: Piecing Together Medical Botany

Throwback Thursday: Piecing Together Medical Botany

The "Flower Book" from the Moore Archives is much older (and weirder) than We Thought Root Cause While organizing our library, we found a mysterious…

Yellow Springs and the Battle of the Clouds

Researched and Written by Mark Ashton A blue and white flag with white stars (AI-generated. AI-generated content may be incorrect.) Head Quarters, at Yellow spring…

Throwback Thursday: Bog Garden Discovery of Archaic Projectile Points

Throwback Thursday: Bog Garden Discovery of Archaic Projectile Points

Indigenous Americans have been using the land at Yellow Springs for at least Four and a half Millennia Projectile points in their original wrappings A…

Throwback Thursday: The Cyclopedia of Chester County

Throwback Thursday: The Cyclopedia of Chester County

Compiled in 1893 by Samuel T. Wiley and Winfield Scott Garner This week’s Throwback Thursday features another hefty, aged leather-bound book discovered in the Moore…

Throwback Thursday: Lane Family Photo Album

Throwback Thursday: Lane Family Photo Album

(Cross-referencing this photo album with Orphan School Records) This week’s Throwback Thursday highlights the Lane family photo album, which donated to Historic Yellow Springs at…

Jack Harris: Father of the Blob (2015) 

Jack Harris: Father of the Blob (2015) 

Researched and Written by Mark Ashton D/O/M Neile Adams November 1956  Filming of Blob per Adams February 1958  McQueen died of mesothelioma in Mexico on Nov.…

Throwback Thursday: The Head of Walter

Throwback Thursday: The Head of Walter

(1926 Sculpture by Sydney R. Mudge) For the first week of September, our Throwback Thursday highlights Head of Walter, a plaster sculpture created in 1926…

Artifact of the Month: August 2025

Artifact of the Month: August 2025

Historic Yellow Springs and the Moore Archives Presents: The Sketchbook of Margaret Goddard From 1916 to 1952, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)…

Santa and a young visitor enjoy a moment together in front of a lit holiday tree celebrating community in the village on the National Register of Historic Places

A glimpse into the Holidays for PA Soldiers’ Orphan School in 1898

In reviewing Annual Reports at the PA Soldiers’ Orphan School at Chester Springs from the historical archives, we recently came across these holiday descriptions from…

SEPTEMBER 17, 1777

YELLOW SPRINGS…On this day in early morning, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, marched into the village of Yellow Springs with his wet,…