Lower Providence
The Audubon Schools
This week we have a guest blogger: our own trustee and regular volunteer, George Detwiler! Audubon Elementary served the children of Audubon almost continually for 90 years after it’s opening in 1929. It opened with only four classrooms. Entrance was through the large front door facing Egypt Road, and the first thing you saw when… Read More »The Audubon Schools
Timothy Matlack, Free Quaker
In Lower Providence Township, sits the small private Wetherill cemetery, where the man who probably penned the Declaration of Independence is buried. Timothy Matlack was born in New Jersey to a Quaker family in 1730 and came to Philadelphia as a young man. When war began with Britain, Matlack declared himself a patriot and was… Read More »Timothy Matlack, Free Quaker
Pipeline Explosion in Audubon
On Thanksgiving Day in 1950, just as families in Lower Providence were sitting down together to enjoy the holiday, a huge explosion occurred. Three thousand feet of a natural gas pipeline that ran from Texas to New York were destroyed in the blast. The Times-Herald reported the explosion on the day after (November 24) and quoted the… Read More »Pipeline Explosion in Audubon
The Washington Greys Artillery
This week I came across two books kept by a local militia called the Washington Grey Artillerists. It was organized in 1842 by Jesse B. Davis, who was captain of the troop. The members were mostly drawn from Lower Providence Township.