TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction and Dedication
The Overview
The Beginnings
- The Lenape
- The Earliest Settlers
- Scull & Heap Map
- Penn’s Charter
- The Peaceable Kingdom
- The Welsh Tract
The Pioneers
- Merion Friends Meetinghouse
- John Roberts of Pencoyd
- The Llewellyn Homesteads
- Humphreys: Pont Reading
- Penn Cottage
- Green Hill
- Early Notables
- Harriton House
- Joseph Price
- Jones: Grove of the Red Partridge
- Jones: Wynne Wood
The Development
- Old Roads and Travel
- The Milestones
- Taverns and Inns
- The Mills of Lower Merion
- John Roberts of the Mill
- Philadelphia & Columbia Railway
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Bryn Mawr Hotel
- The Automobile Revolution
The Communities
- Gladwyne
- Gladwyne (continued)
- Bala Cynwyd
- Belmont Hills
- Ardmore
- Narberth
- Bryn Mawr
- Suburban Square
- English Village
The Schooling
- Lower Merion Academy
- Early Schools
- Public Schools
- Episcopal Academy
- Friends’ Central School
- Haverford School
- Baldwin School
- Shipley School
- Waldron Mercy Academy
- Haverford College
- Bryn Mawr College
- Rosemont College
- Barnes Foundation
The Faiths
- St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
- St. John’s Episcopal Church
- Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church
- Church of St. Asaph
- Church of the Redeemer
- St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church
- St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
- St. Luke Methodist Church
- Zion Baptist Church
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church
- Main Line Reform Temple Beth Elohim
- Temple Beth Hillel – Beth El
- Temple Adath Israel of the Main Line
- Lower Merion Synagogue
- Har Hazaitim Cemetery
The Conflicts
The Services
- Appleford
- Ashbridge
- Upland
- Local Trades
- Bryn Mawr Hospital
- Lankenau Hospital
- Police and Fire Protection
- Bala Troop One
- The Libraries
The Diversions
The Residents
- Cassatt: Cheswold
- Wheeler: Pembroke
- McDowell: Olinda
- Hires: Rose Hill
- Red Rose, Stoke Poges
- Gibson: Maybrook
- Griscom: Dolobran
- Clothier: Ballytore
- Wood: Woodmont, Father Divine
- Sinnott: Rathalla
- Foerderer: La Ronda
- Lippincott: Alscot
- Roberts: Penshurst
- Gilmore: Yorklynne
- Clark: Willoughby
- Saunders: Idlewild Farm
- Crosby Brown: Clifton Wynyates
- Ludington: Clovelly
- Pew: Knollbrook
- Log House
- McLean: Sydbury House
- Rolling Hill Park