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Title: Fight fire two hours to save Penn Cottage
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Source: Charles Barker scrapbook vol 1, Hist Soc Mont Co.
Date: 2/23/1917
Folder/Item #: Fires & Floods (1); 32
Notes:
Abstract: Lower Merion firemen fought for two hours to save Penn Cottage at Wynnewood built in 1695. A wing of the historic house was destroyed. One of the oldest dwellings in Lower Merion. Present owner is Robert Toland and the Toland Estate.