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October 8, 2009 This year the Chester Historical Preservation Committee is planning to continue our tradition of an "All Chester Family Reunion" to be held on Saturday October 24, 2009 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Delaware County Historical Society's Research Library and Museum at 4th & Market Streets in Chester. If additional details arrive I will post them here. Meanwhile, contact Dave Guleke or Carol Fireng for more information. John
- John PS: The text on the plaque reads, "Delaware County Historical Society - A. Lewis Smith Award - Presented to - John Bullock - In Grateful Recognition of his Generous Service to the Society - and to the Preservation of the Historical Buildings of Delaware County - Board of Directors - October 27, 2007"
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List of Research Resources available at the Delaware County Historical Society library. Paul Crowther has offered to do lookups in City Directories (1887-1893) for Allentown, Erie, Pittsburg, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, Reading, Bradford, Norristown, Scranton, Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre, and CHESTER! For those doing genealogy research, Helen M. (Webber) Imburgia has been kind enough to share with us a very useful list that she compiled of Research Facilities in Delaware County, PA. She has included contact info, library hours plus a summary of the holdings at each location! Rick Nicholson, is in the process of posting the entire "1884 History of Delaware County" by H. G. Ashmead on the www.delcohistory.org website. This work is a wonderful source of information on the early years of Delaware County and is a must bookmark for those folks working on genealogy. Click Here for the direct link to the beginning of the pages that pertain specifically to the city of Chester.
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Many thanks to all for your very
kind words of congratulations on the A. Lewis Smith award presented to me
on Saturday October 27, 2007 by the Delaware County Historical Society and a
special thanks to those who braved the uncertain weather to attend. While
I am very appreciative of the award, once again I humbly accept in on
behalf of all of you who have contributed to make
OldChesterPa.com the rich source of Chester and Delaware County history
that it has become. You are the ones who have so generously
shared your stories, photos and knowledge of Chester so that we could
build this online encyclopedia of Chester history!
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