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Upcoming Meeting

Annual Meeting Notice

NOTE: Before the featured presentation, we will hold the Society's Annual Meeting (rescheduled from the cancelled January meeting) to briefly conduct some necessary official business, mainly the election of officers & board members and presentation of the annual report, followed by concise updates on the Society's status and ongoing activities.

This Society meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday February 16, 2025
at and co-sponsored by the Tredyffrin Public Libary in Strafford, Pa.
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Appreciating Tredyffrin’s Places

presented by Rob Williams

Rob Williams

Tredyffrin Township has been important to many eras of Philadelphia area history for more than 300 years. Its northern half evolved from a broad valley with farmland that fed colonial Philadelphia and beyond, to become a 20th-century corridor of industry and technology. The high ground of its southern half transformed from a hilly forested landscape with isolated cabins into a thoroughfare of traversing wagons and railroads with stops at roadway and trackside inns, services, and commercial properties, and many residential neighborhoods.

Throughout the Township, places can be found where this history was made. Join Rob Williams, Chair of the Township’s Historical Commission, on a virtual journey of our local history to appreciate these various stages of change and find the sites that still tell these stories.

Rob Williams has served since 2020 as Chair of the Tredyffrin Historical Commission, a Township advisory board. Rob’s quest is to seek out and learn local and world histories through travel, courses and even archaeology. Rather than pursue his boyhood dream to become an architect, Rob worked as a technology and program manager in the aerospace industry, and later an adjunct professor of innovation management at Temple University. His bucket list is still long, so please ask.

 

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