Author: Julie Hodge

We received a wonderful donation for our museum: two murals of pastoral scenes in Worcester done in oils on canvas. The murals are 8′ by 4′ each. We have stabilized them and they are currently hanging upstairs at the Farmers Union Hall. They come from the Roy and Anna Schweiker home on the corner of…

Oswin S Allebach, a cousin of my Grandfather Allebach, purchased the store that was on the corner of Valley Forge Road and Skippack Pike in 1911 from Harry Nace. My parents bought it in 1927. So for fifty-six years, the Allebach family served the community with the store and post office. From 1911 to 1967,…

This Heebner Direct-Geared, One-Horsepower, Tread Power was built in 1896 by the Worcester family, David Heebner and Sons, in their Lansdale factory. The Tread Power was one of many modern agricultural improvements in the post-Civil War Period patented by Heebner which included threshers, saws, grain crackers, etc. The Tread Power allowed horses to run farm machinery.