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Throwback Thursday: Vincent Baptist Church Cemetery
Our Search for (Some) of Washington Hall's Deceased Soldiers Leads us to a Local Cemetery View of the burial ground at Vincent Baptist Church (ca.…
Timeline of the Chester Springs Studio at Yellow Springs
View of the CSS Studio in the modern day Colonization of Yellow Springs 1600 - 1722 1630s - 1680s 1630s- Swedes and Finns begin to…
Timeline of the Lincoln Building at Yellow Springs
View of the Courtyard and the Lincoln Building in the Modern Day Colonization of Yellow Springs 1600 - 1722 1630s - 1680s 1630s- Swedes and…
Timeline of the Washington Building at Yellow Springs
View of the Washington Building in the Modern Day Colonization of Yellow Springs 1600 - 1722 1630s - 1680s 1630s- Swedes and Finns begin to…
Throwback Thursday: Prime, Rina, and Primus
We Further Our Research into the Tragically Undocumented Lives of Enslaved People at Yellow Springs Robert M. Malcolm’s advertisement of reward if Primus is returned…
Biography of Samuel Culbertson
Descended from a prominent group of Scots-Irish who immigrated to the Thirteen Colonies (specifically Southeastern PA) in the early 18th century grandchild of William Culbertson…
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Forgotten Faces from Washington Hall
We Continue to Use Historical Research to Return Imagery to Lost Revolutionary Figures First page of the index of Kennedy’s Estate (circa 1778) Setting the…
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Medical Faces from The Revolution in Chester County
We Continue to Use Historical Research to Return Imagery to Lost Revolutionary Figures Setting the Scene Last week, our Throwback Thursday post used new technology…
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Faces from The Revolution in Chester County
We Continue to Use Historical Research to Return Imagery to Lost Revolutionary Figures Setting the Scene Last week, our Throwback Thursday post used new technology…
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Faces of the 4th Pennsylvania Battalion
We Use Historical Research to Return Imagery to Lost Revolutionary Figures Setting the Scene Last week, in our Throwback Thursday post, we explored letters between…
Throwback Thursday: Letters of Persifor Frazer
While Stationed at Fort Ticonderoga, Persifor Frazer wrote to his wife Polly, and mentioned the Kennedys of Yellow Springs Page 1 of letter from Persifor…
Throwback Thursday: Letter to Johnathan Potts from John B. Cutting
Examining Our Archives Uncovers a Scan of John B. Cutting's Original Letter to Jonathan Potts What Is This? This is a photographic scan of a…