Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society
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Source: April 1989 Volume 27 Number 2, Page 42

Foreword

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Martha Lightwood's article on the Valley Meeting was presented at one of the club's meetings last fall, held in the Valley Meeting House. A tour of the 115-year old building was also included in the program. Alice Vandling, a member of the club, assisted in the presentation.

Franklin L. Burns was one of the founders, and for several years the president, of the Tredyffrin Easttown History Club. He died in 1946, but these recollections of early baseball and baseball fields in Berwyn have never before, to our knowledge, been published. They were among some of his manuscripts recently turned over to the club.

The article on schools in Tredyffrin and Easttown townships before the Public School Law is the first of a series planned for this year and early 1990. It was presented at the January meeting of the club.

The next article, on the boundaries of Chester County, has been presented by the author on several occasions before various historical groups in the county.

Our last feature is again a by-product of the research Barbara Fry is doing on the history of the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Berwyn. She found the notices for these two sales of property in Berwyn in the files of the Library of the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester.