David J. Schmidt Collection

A collection of articles from 1999 to 2003 by David Schmidt, journalist and history specialist for Main Line Life. In 2001, Schmidt won the Historical Architectural Review Board Journalism Award for Outstanding Service.

• The American Guide Project, Part 1: A 65-year-old Main Line tour that’s still interesting
• The American Guide Project, Part 2: King of Prussia & Valley Forge
• The American Guide Project, Part 3: Lancaster Ave. and Route 30
• Autocar in Lower Merion
• At The Battle of the Clouds, the rains won the day
• Belmont Hills: the end of a long immigrant road
• Bok brought knowledge to women
• The Black Confederates
• A book report on the Old Main Line
• A Brief History of The Battle of Germantown
• Camp Fuller — Main Line, USA
• Celebrating Easttown’s 300th
• Changing with the Times
• Chesterbrook retells the story of Wayne for the 20th century
• Computer Inventor
• Creating a Revolutionary Experience
• The design behind the Meetinghouse
• Devon man fights for recognition of Italians interred during WWII
• Falling Waters: Growth depends on power, and its source is water
• Farms were hobbies along the Mainline
• Foerderer fortunes the zoo
• Following Native American Footsteps
• Forty Years of Quaker Life
• Friends every week for 300 years
• Growing up in Wayne really was something wonderful
• Handwritten History
• Harcum College: The Vision of Edith Harcum
• Harriton House’s history is America’s Heritage
• Hires and the root of root beer
• Historical Society book portrays the living history of the Main Line
• History: Changing with the times
• History Professor used to be lighter than air
• How now General Howe: Radnor Society hears from a Loyalist and Radical about the Philadelphia Campaign
• Immigration, the great equalizer
• Playing your way to Merion
• Irish Railroad workers buried in cemetery by the tracks
• John Dickinson
• John Roberts of the Mill
• The Lenape gave much better than they got
• Local shop from another era
• Celebrating their own history
• Main Line Chew family maintains their ties to Cliveden House
• Main Line Millennial moments
• The Main Line’s Classical Inspiration
• The Main Line’s YMCA has filled community needs for 95 years
• Making it Modern
• Lower Merion Academy will be home to Historical Society
• Lower Merion’s Lost Books
• The Main Line’s Country Houses
• The Mansions
• Mapping Main Line History
• A Meeting With Colonial Quakers
• A New Roof for the Finley House
• Nippes Rifle and Mill remind of the Main Line’s manufacturing past
• Old Eagle School
• Patching Together the Past
• Penn Cottage revels in spirit of Welsh settlers
• Policing Lower Merion was a team effort
• Putting the Past Online
• The Radnor Hunt
• Radnor in 1951
• Read All About It!
• Remember Paoli!
• Remembering Hap Arnold
• Renewing Valley Forge
• The Road West
• Rollin’ on the river
• Rosemont building goes from carriage builder to Ferrari fold
• Saving our Near Past
• Three Wayne brothers fly off to war
• Township’s First 300 Years marked by spring snow
• T.V. Documentary tells of our earliest railroad
• A Victorian Holiday Diary
• Washington’s Christmas Journey
• The Welsh create the Main Line
• What’s in a name?
• Wister’s West