Mapping 1777 Chester County (virtual)
In 2020, the Chester County Archives staff unveiled their award-winning 1777 Chester County Property Atlas. This project highlights property owners, roads, and notable sites of interest (mills, taverns, places of […]
Standing on the Border of Two Worlds: The Nature of Cemetery Landscapes (virtual)
Oaklands Cemetery has served as one of West Chester’s primary memorial landscapes since 1854, but it also holds a place within the larger world of well-designed garden cemeteries that redefined […]
Philadelphia Industrialists and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930 (virtual)
Pew. Luden. Berwind. Clothier. Wyeth. Dorrance. Coxe. Schmidt. This talk by former Winterthur Estate Historian Jeff Groff focuses on leading families and the businesses that once made Philadelphia known as […]
Abolition and the Underground Railroad (virtual)
Chester County was home to a diverse patchwork of religious communities, antislavery activities and free Black populations, all working to end the blight of slavery during the Civil War era. […]
Lafayette at Brandywine – An Evening with author Bruce Mowday (hybrid)
CCHC is extremely proud to partner with the Brandywine Conservancy on this amazing new hybrid event! Brandywine welcomes award-winning author and reporter Bruce E. Mowday for a lecture on his […]
“Dirty Work” for a Woman: The Life and Career of Daguerreotypist Sarah Garrett Hewes (via Zoom)
Sarah Garrett Hewes (1819-1853) did not follow the expected life path for a mid-19th century woman as she traveled around the greater Philadelphia area working as a daguerreotypist prior to […]
Lost Gardens of the Main Line, 1880-1930 (virtual)
This lecture explores some of the great gardens and estates of the Main Line from the 1870s to 1930s. It looks at the changing garden styles and the work of […]
The Story of Philadelphia’s Chinatown
Dr. Cecilia Chien explores the history of Asian Americans in Philadelphia from the 1800s to the present. There are myriad Asian American communities. They differ in country of origin, ethnicity, […]
‘Don’t Forget the Ladies’: A Genealogist’s Guide to Women and the Law
In early America, women were all too often the people who just weren’t there: not in the records, not in the censuses, not on juries, not in the voting booth. […]