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Charles R. Barker

Deep Freeze

If you’re reading this on Thursday, you might be hunkered down inside trying to keep warm.  Now, don’t worry about that headline, that’s not tomorrow’s forecast.  The average January temperature for Norristown is 41 degrees. The high today was 16. In light of that, I thought these pictures of Ardmore after a 1902 ice storm… Read More »Deep Freeze

St. Paul’s, Ardmore

Charles Reed Barker was an amateur historian and member of the Historical Society of Montgomery County for many decades.  He was a tireless researcher and donated a large collection of scrapbooks to the Historical Society.  A set of four scrapbooks contains records of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ardmore, Pa., including baptisms, marriages, and… Read More »St. Paul’s, Ardmore