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Upper Providence

Upper Providence Township

This collection represents all materials pertaining to Upper Providence Township. This includes information on the township and historical information.

Charles C. Hofmann

Since this is my last week at HSMC, I wanted to write about one of my favorite pieces in the collection. We have written about the Montgomery County Almshouse in prior blogs and many of you have seen our painting of it at HSMC headquarters. However, you may not know the story behind the artist,… Read More »Charles C. Hofmann

Maying at Augustus Lutheran Church

As May draws to a close, I was reminded of something I came across a couple of months ago, an invitation to the second annual “Maying” at Augustus Lutheran Church. The invitation is from 1850, by which time Augustus Lutheran was already over 100 years old.

River Crest Preventorium

Recently, George Detwiler, member and volunteer here at the Historical Society of Montgomery County, donated a collection of photographs of the River Crest Preventorium. This facility was an offshoot of the Kensington Dispensary for the treatment of tuberculosis located in Mont Clare, Upper Providence. The Kensington Dispensary was founded by St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in… Read More »River Crest Preventorium

The Bringhurst Fund

I thought it would be nice to close out the year with some charitable giving. This week, I discovered a large ledger that recorded the accounts of the Bringhurst Fund in Upper Providence. The first pages of the ledger contained a copy of the will of Wright Bringhurst, the founder of the fund.

The Montgomery County Almshouse

The Montgomery County Almshouse originally began serving the poor of the county in 1808.  It had been built on 265 acres that the county purchased from Abraham Gotwalt in Upper Providence Township (the county would later add an additional 31 acres to the property).

Free Black Men

A couple of weeks ago we looked at a will and inventory of Belinda, a free black woman of Montgomery County.  This week we have a deed from 1803 transferring property from John Davis and his wife Jane to James Black and George Chester, two free black men.