Bethel Township Preservation Society

Register for this free event to see who the winners are this year for the Annual Preservation Awards

Sorry for the short notice but if you are interested in genealogy this seminar is for you!

Preservation Pennsylvania's conference is virtual this year, from Oct 13-16. That makes it easy for anyone to attend and the sessions were selected with a broad... audience in mind, from grassroots advocates to cultural resource management professionals. Click the link below for the schedule and more information. Registered attendees also have access to recordings of sessions so they can watch on their own schedule. Topics include local development, turning passion into a project, preservation justice, and a just-added session about the National Negro Opera House that was just announced on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's "11 Most Endangered" list. Conference has a virtual town square so you can connect with colleagues and compare notes on your community's challenges and projects. #preservationeducation See more

so close to home - would like to see this for Bethel

Thomas Garrett meeting with Pres. Abraham Lincoln Longwood Meeting group may have influenced Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. In ...June 1862, when the country had been at war for a little over a year, Longwood sent six delegates to Washington to present what they called a Memorial--really a petition--to the president. The six were Thomas Garrett, Alice Eliza Hambleton, Dinah Mendenhall, Oliver Johnson, Eliza Agnew, and William Barnard. The Longwood Friends said they saw the evils of the war as "vials of Divine retribution which are now poured out upon the whole land, for its grievous and unrelenting oppression of a guiltless and inoffensive race." They urged Lincoln to abolish slavery without delay........ President Lincoln started drafting the Emancipation in July See more