The Bulletin of the Radnor Historical Society has been printed annually and distributed to members of the Society since 1950. Today, each issue is sent out the year following its cover date, so that reports on the Society’s programs, finances and developments correspond with the year on the cover. The Bulletin is the best source on the history of the Society itself, and continues to be printed each year. Below are PDF versions of all past Bulletins, with text that is searchable via a PDF reader.
Volume 1 : 1950-1960
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Volume 1, Number 1 : 1950 • Historical Radnor Township
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Volume 1, Number 2 : 1951 • Fifty Years of Local Government • Miscellaneous notes on Radnor History
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There was no Bulletin for 1952.
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Volume 1, Number 3 : 1953 This Bulletin was printed inside the Suburban and Wayne Times. • The Conestoga Wagon • The Walking Purchase • The Romance of Old Deeds
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Volume 1, Number 5 : 1955 • The Old Mills of Radnor • Education in Pre-Revolutionary Radnor Twp. • The Underground Railroad and Anti-Slavery • Movement on the Upper Main Line
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Volume 1, Number 6 : 1956 • The Watsons of Kinterra (on Church Road) • My Uncle: George L. Harrison • The Old Wayne Lyceum Hall
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Volume 1, Number 7 : 1957 • Gettysburg • An Artist Follows the Radnor Hounds • The Story of The Saturday Club of Wayne
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Volume 1, Number 8 : 1958 • The Story of Woodstock (on S. Spring Mill Road) • Normal P. Lengel (Jobbing Carpenter)
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Volume 1, Number 9 : 1959 • Adelberger - Florist and Greenhouses • The Suburban and Wayne Times • Historic American Buildings Survey (in Radnor) • Mrs. Lienhardt and Son Bakery, Confectionary, Ice Cream Parlor • George R. Park and Sons
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Volume 1, Number 10 : 1960 • Notes on the "Plough" and the "Sorrell Horse" • Taverns on Old Lancaster Road • "Friendship, Love, and Peace" The Winsor Sisters
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Volume 2 : 1961-1970
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Volume 2, Number 1 : 1961 • The Radnor Methodist Church • The Story of Walnut Hill (Lower Merion) • The Wayne French and English School
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Volume 2, Number 2 : 1962 • The Main Line Carriage Trade • The Burning of the "Bellevue" - Fires and Fire-fighting in Radnor • Notable Visitors in Radnor
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Volume 2, Number 3 : 1963 • The Radnor Township Poorbook • Changing Tastes in Food in Pennsylvania • Banjo-Town, Radnor (Newtown Road)
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Volume 2, Number 4 : 1964 • A True Heart is a Steadfast Heart (The Finley Family) • Frances Hughs Sausser • Radnor Township Tax Rate in 1764 • Overseers of the Poor of Radnor Township
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Volume 2, Number 5 : 1965 • Some Radnor Roots in Radnorshire • The North Wayne Protective Association
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Volume 2, Number 6 : 1966 • The Good Neighbors of Mt. Pleasant Then and Now • Wayne, PA, a Community of "firsts"
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Volume 2, Number 7 : 1967 • Wayne Legion Home • Wayne Public Safety Committee • The Center of Radnor • The WWI War Memorial
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Volume 2, Number 8 : 1968 • Mills on the Upper Reaches of Darby Creek • Old Broad Street Station • Memoirs of George L. Harrison
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Volume 2, Number 9 : 1969 • Herbert S. Casey • The Incorporation of Wayne • Radnor Open Space Program • Charles Morris Young • Delaware & Atlantic Telephone Listings circa 1907
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Volume 2, Number 10 : 1970 • Our Neighbors the Schmidts • The Great Road of Marple • Harford
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Volume 3 : 1971-1980
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Volume 3, Number 1 : 1971 • Highland Homes • O.L. Ehmann, Jr. • Sources of Radnor History
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Volume 3, Number 2 : 1972 • The Famed in Wayne (VFMA) • Documents of Radnor History
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Volume 3, Number 3 : 1973 • Reminiscences (J.H. Macpherson) • Richard W. Barringer • Early Maps Showing Radnor Township • The Blacks in Radnor before 1850
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Volume 3, Number 4 : 1974 • History of Wayne Day • Three Centuries of Radnor and the Radnor Historical Society • The Spinster (pleasants) Siter Family
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Volume 3, Number 5 : 1975 • History of the Hale Fire Pump Co. (6) • History of St. John's AME Church • Archeology (The Finley House Basement) • Good Shepard Apts. • Rights and Grievances at Carpenter's Hall • Early Photography • Vignettes of South Wayne
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Volume 3, Number 6 : 1976 • Radnor in the Gay Nineties • The Grange (Haverford Twp.) • Tracing a Late Woodland Indian Village in Devon • Radnor Historical Society (A Bicentennial Resume) • Bobby Barr, Portrait of a Gentleman
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Volume 3, Number 7 : 1977 • Early Inns and Innkeepers of Radnor • Francisvale Home • Museum in the Finley House • Chair from Vanor • Art in Glass - Duncan Miles • Blacks in Radnor (a footnote)
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Volume 3, Number 8 : 1978 • Germantown • Radnor 1777-1778 - winter • The Neighborhood League • Migratory Legends • The Fry Letters • Researching Radnor • Early Landowners in Radnor
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Volume 3, Number 9 : 1979 • The Pechin Diary
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Volume 3, Number 10 : 1980 • Conestoga Road • The Playing Fields of Wayne • Researching the Unknown • Hero - Alexander Johnston Cassatt
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Volume 4 : 1981-1990
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Volume 4, Number 1 : 1981 • The Bellevue Hotel • The Matlack House • Portledge • Wm. Penn, Myth and Man
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Volume 4, Number 2 : 1982 • Wayne "Water Works" Remembered • Suburban and Wayne Crimes • Horace Trumbauer, Architect for Town and County
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Volume 4, Number 3 : 1983 • Wooton en Fete • Wayne Lyceum Hall • When the Fireworks Factory at Devon Blew Up
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Volume 4, Number 4 : 1984 • John Singer Sargent's Radnor Portrait • The Treaty of Paris, 1783 • Confirmation of Independence • Cast Iron Radiators
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Volume 4, Number 5 : 1985 • Dorothy Harrison Therman • Theodore Boreham Brooks • William N. Fletcher • North Wayne Historical District • Wayne Post Office Mural • Charles B. Stilwel • Dr. A. H. O'Neal • Adelberger, Burket & R.H. Johnson
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Volume 4, Number 6 : 1986 • Isabella Auld McKnight • The Firehouse and The Park • Horace Trumbauer in Wayne and St. Davids • Theodore Boreham Brooks Memorial - Wagon House • Cooking from an 18th century Kitchen Garden • Paoli Troop No. 1 Celebrates 75 Years • A Century of Warmth
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Volume 4, Number 7 : 1987 • Horace Trumbauer in Radnor • Ponemah; Land of the Hearafter • An American Bungalow • Radnor Historical Society Artifacts • Tucker China
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Volume 4, Number 8 : 1988 • Katherine Hewitt Cummin • Herbert S. Henderson • Horace Trumbauer in Villanova • The Home and Hospital of the Good Shepard
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Volume 4, Number 9 : 1989 • Finley House, Grounds & Garden - Past, Present, and Future • Interview with Hope Montgomery Scott - Carol Creutzburg • A.B. Frost, Book Illustrator • A Historic Sketch of the Parish of St. Thomas of Villanova 1943-1989 • Horace Trumbauer - Elsewhere in Delaware County
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Volume 4, Number 10 : 1990 • When Finley House was a Frontier Outpost • Dorothy Therman's Stories from Tory Island • Architectural Drawings and the Wendell and Smith Account Book • The Devon Horse Show British Influence on Apparel and Tack
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Volume 5 : 1991-2000
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Volume 5, Number 1 : 1991 • A Couple of Footnotes to the Development of Wayne • A Quick Look at the History of the Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices • The Hildebrand House
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Volume 5, Number 2 : 1992 • In Memoriam - Charles F. Alexander • Glory Days of the Pennsylvania Railroad - Charles F. Alexander • Waynes First Businessman - Joseph Mellon Fronfield • Recollections from Seventy • Activities of the Radnor Historical Society 1992 • Dancing School 1912-1913
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Volume 5, Number 3 : 1993 • Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Domestic Medicine in Pennsylvania • Evangeline in Radnor? The Acadians in Chester County • Early Roads of Radnor Township: Their Story • The History of Some Radnor Parks
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Volume 5, Number 4 : 1994 • Native Resources: The Radnor Historical Society and the Lancaster Pike • The History of Radnor Township's Parks (correction to info in 1993 Bulletin) • A Remembrance: Virginia Drylesdale Keeney • The Electrification of the "Paoli Local" • Jesse Brooke's Cello • Finley House Visitors • History of the Origins of Waterloo Gardens
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Volume 5, Number 5 : 1995 • History and Development of the Interurban Car in North America • Children Visit the Historical Society • Changing Radnor: 1790-1850 • Wayne Architects and Builders - Their Story • In Memory of Robert Musselwhite Goshorn • The Blizz of the Blizzard: March 17 1888
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Volume 5, Number 6 : 1996 • Noted in Passing - the Loss of an 18th Century Farmhouse • Radnor High School Celebrates 100 Years • Newspapering on the Main Line • Give Her This Day - a book review • History Comes Alive • In Memoriam: Katharine Schultz Wood Leonard and George Vaux
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Volume 5, Number 7 : 1997 • Radnor Historical Society : "Fifty Years" • Historical Radnor Township • Carriers' Cycle • The Old Wayne Lyceum Hall • Frances Hughs Sausser • A True Heart is a Steadfast Heart
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Volume 5, Number 8 : 1998 • Caesar - His Story • A Tale of Two Places, The Paul and Walton Estates • Fair Hill • Excerpts from "Just Ring A Bell"
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Volume 5, Number 9 : 1999 • Wayne, Maine • Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr: A Patron Saint of Wayne, 1905-1990 • The Residential Architecture of R. Brognard Okie • Entertainment in the Early Days of Wayne
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Volume 5, Number 10 : 2000 • "Not the Great nor well Bespoke" • The Fifteen Covered Bridges of Chester County • Radnor Historical Society Contributes To the Radnor Township Centennial • Twenty-four Centennial Moments • The Bellevue Hotel
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Volume 6 : 2001-2010
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Volume 6, Number 1 : 2001 • "From WASP to BOBO" • Reception for Victorian House Tour • Society's Garden Party & Open House • The Wayne Open Air School • Archives Restoration Project Report • The Society's Collections • Society's Victorian Doll House • Main Line Real Estate Atlases
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Volume 6, Number 2 : 2002 • 2002 Programs • Our Conestoga Wagon • The Finley House's New Roof • The Society's "1789" Kitchen • Archives Restoration Project
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Volume 6, Number 3 : 2003 • 2003 Programs • Wayne Elementary School Visits The FinIey House • The Victorian Bed Chamber
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Volume 6, Number 4 : 2004 • 2004 Programs • The Historical Society’s Photographic Collection • The Historical Society’s Publications Collection • Lecian von Bernuth Engaging Raconteur of Early Radnor
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Volume 6, Number 5 : 2005 • 2005 Programs • James W. Paul and the Woodcrest Estate • The Second Block of East Wayne
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Volume 6, Number 6 : 2006 • The Dorothy Finley Award • 2006 Programs • Anthony Wayne’s Death and Burial - and Reburial • Richard Allen in Radnor
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Volume 6, Number 7 : 2007 • 2007 Programs • Radnor’s Historian Emerita: Carol Creutzburg • Wayne Art Center Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
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Volume 6, Number 8 : 2008 • 2008 Programs • In Memoriam: Dorothy H. Therman • In Memoriam: Mary H. Meeker • 80 Years of the Anthony Wayne Theatre
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Volume 6, Number 9 : 2009 • 2009 Programs
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Volume 6, Number 10 : 2010 • In Memoriam: George W. Smith • 2010 Programs • Radnor Historic House Marker Program
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Volume 7, Number 1 : 2011 • A History of Acme Markets in Wayne : Read an expanded version of this article • Peabody & Stearns on the Main Line • Gallery: Photographs New to Us in 2011 • 2011 Report
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Volume 7, Number 2 : 2012 • A Visit to a Former Wayne Diner, Reborn in Buffalo • The Evans Arboretum and Today's Ithan Valley Park • Gallery: Photographs New to Us in 2012 • 2012 Report
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Volume 7, Number 3 : 2013 • "Now, About That Stone..." • Forgotten Treasures: John Ray Sinnock's Artwork for the Rosemont School • 2013 Report
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Volume 7, Number 4 : 2014 • Every Pitcher Tells a Story • The Architecture of Culver & Rogers in Wayne • 2014 Report
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Volume 7, Number 5 : 2015 • The Radnor Photographs of James C. Massey • The Stories Behind Radnor’s Newest Road Names • 2015 Report
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Volume 7, Number 6 : 2016 • Wayne’s Gasoline Alley • 2016 Report
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Volume 7, Number 7 : 2017 • Prairie School Design on the Main Line • Louella House at 150 • 2017 Report
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Volume 7, Number 8 : 2018 • Radnor Changes: Historic Resources Recently Lost • Tales of Montgomery Lane • 2018 Report
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