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      • Anders’ One Room Schoolhouse #5
      • Bethel One Room Schoolhouse #6
      • Cassel’s One Room Schoolhouse #7
      • Johnson’s “Green Hill”/Johnson’s “Water Street”/Roberts’ Schoolhouse #2
      • Methacton/Quarry Hole Hall/Fairview Schoolhouse #1/Fairview Consolidated School
      • Union-Frick’s/Bean’s-Stump Hole Hall One Room Schoolhouse #3
      • Wentz’s Church School/Lederach’s Seminary/Metz’s One Room Schoolhouse #4
      • The Crisis and Consolidaton of the One Room Schoolhouses
      • Worcester High School at Farmers Union Hall 1908-1911
      • Worcester School 1912-1929
      • Diary of Worcester High 1917 and 1918
      • Worcester School 1930-1939
      • Worcester School 1940-1949
      • Worcester School 1950-1959
      • School Graduations
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      • The People of Worcester Groups K – O
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      • The People of Worcester Individuals and Couples A – E
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      • The People of Worcester Individuals and Couples P – T
      • The People of Worcester Individuals and Couples U – Z
    • Place Photos
      • Places in Worcester – Aerial Views
      • Places in Worcester – Churches
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      • Places in Worcester – Homes and Farms
  • Local History
    • History of Worcester Township
    • Bicentennial Quilt
    • Farmers’ Union Hall
    • “Old Dutchie” Church
    • The Lester Landes Legacy
    • Lester Landes Special Topics
    • Mills on the Zacharias
    • Maps
    • Cemetery Database
      • Cemeteries disclaimer
      • Death Notices, Obituaries, Funerary Cards
      • Bethel Hill Church Cemetery
      • Church of the Brethren “Dunkard” Cemetery
      • Central Schwenkfelder Church Cemetery
      • Evangelical Congregational “Dutchie” Church Cemetery
      • Hans Christian Heebner Family Cemetery
      • Methacton Mennonite Meetinghouse Cemetery
      • Peter Wentz Family Cemetery
      • Reformed Mennonite “Herrelite” Meetinghouse Cemetery
      • Wagner Family Cemetery
      • Wentz’s UCC Church Cemetery
      • Worcester Schwenkfelder Church Cemetery
    • Reminiscences
      • General Store Memories
      • Music in Worcester Schools
      • Schwenkfelders
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      • Ancient Trees of Worcester
      • Methacton Charter Oak
      • School Houses of Worcester
      • Center Point Band
      • The Typhoid Fever Epidemic of 1914
      • The “Wogglebug” Trolley through Worcester
    • Worcester War Veterans
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Reminiscences

Worcester Township, PA

Reminiscences

Reminiscences of Our Countryside by Joseph Bean

Growing Up in a General Store by Wilson Allebach

The Hollis Dann Music Series by Margaret Rothenberger Scheid

Schwenkfelders in Worcester by Cyrus Meschter

 

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