TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
- Some Other Early Notables
- Harriton House
- Joseph Price
- Robert Jones’ Grove of the Red Partridge
- Colonel Owen Jones’ Wynne Wood
The Development
- Old Roads and Travel
- The Milestones
- Taverns and Inns
- The General Wayne Inn
- The Buck Inn
- Red Lion Inn
- Toll Gates
- Old William Penn
- The Three Tuns/St. George’s
- The Mills of Lower Merion
- The Earliest Mill
- The Papermakers
- Powder Mills And Gun & Metal Works
- John Roberts of the Mill
- The Philadelphia & Columbia Railway
- The Pennsylvania Railroad
- Train Stations
- Bryn Mawr Hotel
- The Automobile Revolution
The Communities
The Schooling
- Lower Merion Academy
- Early 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
- Zion Baptist Church
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church
- St. Luke Methodist Church
- The Jewish Community
- St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
The Conflicts
The Services
- Appleford
- Ashbridge House
- 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
- Recycled Estates: Waverly Heights & Beaumont
- Modern Classics: Frank Lloyd Wright, George Howe & Robert Montgomery Brown