Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
History Quarterly Digital Archives


Source: Winter 1978 Volume 16 Number 4, Pages 66–66


Foreword

Page 66

The feature on Waynesborough was adapted from a series of articles Helen Cooper wrote for the Wayne Suburban earlier this year. Mrs. Cooper's. interest in local history, incidentally, may be an inherited one: her father, John Tyson, was the editor/author of a history of Upper Darby Township in Delaware County.

The story on Waynesborough is particularly timely since discussions and plans are currently underway to investigate its purchase to preserve it as a township museum and recreational area.

George Mathias' recollections of the early years of the Paoli Fire Company were set down in 1959 in conjunction with the company's 50th anniversary, and are published through the courtesy of the Fire Company. Mathias was a member of the company "since the days when the young men of the town talked of a fire department; long before the charter of incorporation was granted", and for many years served as secretary of the company.

The "permanent home" to which he refers, of course, was subsequently outgrown, the company moving to a new, larger "permanent home" on Darby Road in 1974, with the 1921 fire house later demolished.

The article on Tredyffrin-Easttown's undefeated and untied football team by Bob Goshorn is one of a series he has been working on, under the general heading "Can You Remember?". The story on the Devon fireworks explosion in the last issue was also one of this series.

 
 

Page last updated: 2010-03-03 at 3:05 EST
Copyright © 2006-2010 Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society. All rights reserved.
Permission is given to make copies for personal use only.
All other uses require written permission of the Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society.