Artifact Collections, Color Guard, Events, Flag Collection, News, Public |
Saturday April 11 was the Grand Opening of the newly restored Muhlenberg Speaker’s House at Historic Trappe in Trappe, Pennsylvania. For this important event, the Society’s Color Guard provided a complete Static Display of all our Color Guard standards and flags as part of the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. This is the new location of our … Read more
University of Pennsylvania scholar Dr. Emma Hart, an authority on trade and commerce in early America, was the Society’s guest lecturer on March 31 at Historic Waynesborough. Dr. Hart, Chair of the History Department and Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, talked about 18th Century differences between America and Britain in terms … Read more
President Whelan’s Member Outreach Initiative continues to organize popular membership receptions. Following on from our social last year at Taylor House Brewing in Catasauqua, PA, this year we chose The Sun Inn and Tavern in Historic Bethlehem, to host our Lehigh Valley membership for a convivial gathering on March 19th. The events of that day … Read more
News, Public, Sons Speaker Series |
The Society hosted popular historian Jim Segrave-Day at Historic Waynesborough on January 27, 2026, for a lecture on how the 1777-1778 Valley Forge encampment molded a loosely organized Continental Army into a disciplined and effective fighting force capable of winning the Revolutionary War. Segrave-Daly, who is from Havertown and speaks widely on historical topics, … Read more
Ancestors & Genealogy, Public |
We are excited to introduce a new feature in which we will recognize the Revolutionary War patriots whose service we honor with our participation in the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. PSSR member: William Murray Gordon Murray, who was PSSR president from 2015 to 2018, lives in the Malvern area with his … Read more
Events, Monuments, News, Public |
On a snowy morning of December 16th, on the 248th anniversary of General George Washington’s Continental Army Encampment at Gulph Mills (13-19 December, 1777), the Society held an important rededication ceremony for the historic monument that has recently been relocated back to this historically accurate location, the actual site of the historic encampment. The … Read more
Color Guard, Events, News, Public |
Each December, on National Wreaths Across America Day, the mission to Remember, Honor and Teach is carried out by coordinated wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as at more than 5,200 other locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea and abroad. On Saturday, December 13th, 2025, The Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the … Read more
Imagine, if you will, back to 1892 – Grover Cleveland was elected U.S. President, Ellis Island first opened as an immigration station, the Sierra Club was founded by John Muir, and our fledgling Society, just a few years old, placed one of our very first historic monuments to forever recognize and memorialize the Continental … Read more
Events, Public, Uncategorized |
Journalist, historian, and award-winning author Sheilah Vance, who grew up on Rebel Hill in Gulph Mills, delivered a well-received lecture to the Society on Nov. 3 about her book “Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment.” The Philadelphia area is rife with sites that mark where Revolutionary War events … Read more
News, Public, Uncategorized |
Historian, producer and journalist Bruce E. Mowday, who has spent almost a generation researching and writing about the life of the Marquis de Lafayette, spoke to the Society on September 23 about the French nobleman he considers one of the most important figures in America’s independence. “We would not have beaten the British in … Read more