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Perkasie, Pennsylvania

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May 22, 2012 - June 20, 2012

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Anthracite Railroads Historical Society

Souderton, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Bucks County Historical Society

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Coopersburg Historical Society

Coopersburg, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Doylestown Borough Historical Society

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Fonthill Museum

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Art, Culture, General, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library

Built between 1908-1912, Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). Archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian, Mercer built Fonthill both as his home and as a showplace for his collection of tiles and prints.

Goschenhoppen Folklife Library and Museum

Green Lane, Pennsylvania

Library

Hatfield Historical Preservation Society

Hatfield, Pennsylvania

Heckler Plains Folklife Society

Harleysville, Pennsylvania

Heritage Conservancy~The

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Historical Society of Hilltown Township

Hilltown, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Isaac Stover House

Erwinna, Pennsylvania

Historic House

James A. Michener Art Museum

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Art

Lansdale Historical Society

Lansdale, Pennsylvania

History, Historical Society, Library

The Lansdale Historical Society operates from a two-building complex at 137-141 Jenkins Ave. One of the buildings - the Jenkins Homestead - is a Federalist style house that dates to 1770. The land was owned by the Jenkins family as far back as 1743. At one time the farmstead encompassed more than 120 acres - a tract larger than the Borough of Lansdale.

Lower Salford Historical Society

Lederach, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania

Harleysville, Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

History, Historic House, Specialized

As gifts to the Bucks County Historical Society, the collection and building were maintained by the trustees without benefit of professional staff until 1971. With a resurgence of interest in early American crafts, an ambitious program to develop and promote the Mercer Museum as an institution of national significance was then undertaken.

The Moland House

Hartsville, Pennsylvania

Archaeology, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library, Park

Many Philadelphians sought to emulate the English country estate tradition by constructing brick and stone formal houses in the countryside. Attorney John Moland had one such house on a plantation in the Northern Liberties, just above the current center city.