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Source: Spring 2004 Volume 41 Number 2, Page 42

FROM THE EDITORS

Page 42

The local landscape is a feature of several articles in this issue of the Quarterly. Author Thomas J. McGuire describes how this area and its residents were affected by the large number of British soldiers who moved in and camped here for 3 days in September 1777. The painting on the cover is a rare view of how Tredyffrin looked at that time to a British officer. Author William L. Nassau tells a rollicking tale of how one fox led a 1910 hunt for some 23 miles from the Howellville quarry to West Laurel Hill Cemetery at the western edge of Philadelphia. The Church Farm School, as described in a book review, at one time extended for over 1,600 acres in the Glen Loch area and had a large farming operation there between Route 30 and Swedesford Road.

In a continuing effort to include more images and photographs in the Quarterly we are pleased to include in this issue author Kelly Smyth's survey of how blacksmiths and their work have been portrayed in historical paintings.

Two local schools are featured. Then... Now shows a photograph of the North Berwyn School taken around 1900 and another of the same building as it looks today as a maintenance building for the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District and the home of Daemion House.

Notes and Comments tells of the dedication of 24 new classrooms at Conestoga High School and how the Club contributed a complete set of the Quarterly to a history class there.

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TREDYFFRIN EASTTOWN HISTORY CLUB QUARTERLY
Volume 41, Number 2 – Spring 2004

Watercolor of the landscape seen from a British Light Dragoon encampment in Tredyffrin on the afternoon of September 19, 1777. It was found in the diary of British officer, William Augustus West, Lord Cantelupe, and is one of the earliest known landscapes of this area.