“Living Free — One Family’s Life after Slavery” Opens April 27, 2019 We are pleased to announce the opening of “Living Free — One Family’s Life after Slavery.” Cornelius Ridley left the plantation in Virginia where he was born, risking his life in the escape to freedom. Most stories we hear of travelers on the […]
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A Street Address for Minshall House
417 East Front Street, Media, PA For the first time since Robert Vernon’s land grant was surveyed by William Penn’s surveyors in September 1682, a piece of that grant — the property where the Minshall House stands at the corner of East Front and Providence Road — has its own street address. It wasn’t until […]
Holiday Open House 2018
The Minshall House, all decked out for the holiday season, opened its doors on Saturday afternoon, December 1, 2018, to the Media community. Many families came to see the decorations made by 4th-grade art students at Media Elementary School and to meet MHS’s special guest, SANTA CLAUS. As a special treat, photographer Paul Indorf, snapped […]
Media Elementary Students Visit Minshall House
History students from Media Elementary School know a bit more about life in colonial America and the power of community action after their field trip to the Minshall House on November 16, 2018. The 4th-graders’ visit is an annual event for nearly 75 students and part of the Delaware County Historical Society’s Passport to History […]
Fall Festival at Minshall House
Falling leaves, scarecrow, corn shocks, pumpkins! It’s FALL, and Media residents and guests celebrated with a Fall Festival on Saturday, October 13, 2018, at the Minshall House. The event was held in conjunction with OCTrolleyFest, an annual celebration of the Philadelphia region’s transportation system. Visitors came from all over Delaware County, some even arriving by […]
Colonial Day 2018 at Middletown Presbyterian
What a treat to join with other local history lovers, reenactors, Colonial period demonstrators, dancers, and musicians playing period music, on September 16, 2018, at the historic Middletown Presbyterian Church near Elwyn. MHS’s Fran Sheldon found a shady spot to set up a table to tell visitors about the Minshall House and to demonstrate spinning […]