| Page Views: 367 Last Visit to Pennsylvania: May, 2004 I Used To Live Here | My Roots in Pennsylvania by grandmaR - last update: Jun 2, 2004 |
| My great grandfather 1840-1930 |
My maternal grandfather's family came to Pennsylvania in the mid 1600s and settled in the Philadelphia area. My great grandfather was a harness maker.
When I was a child, we often visited my grandparents who lived in Milbourne which was a small borough between Phildelphia and Upper Darby. I also had a great uncle and aunt who lived in Berwyn. |
|  | My dad did a series of experiments in the coal mines of the Pottstown area in the mid 1940's, and we took many trips to that area and stayed with local people to set up and get data from the experiments.
In 1969, we lived in Folcroft for 10 months while my husband's ship was in the Navy shipyard. My sister lived in Media at the time.
Then in 1991, my son moved to the Brentwood area near Pittsburgh and eventually married a girl from the Pittsburgh area, and lived there during the time three of our grandchildren were born. One grandson died and is buried in Pittsburgh |
| | Pennsylvania is a large state with Lake Erie on the northwest corner and which has a great deal of mountainous terrain for rafting, hiking, and ecotourism. Pennsylvania is also full of colonial history c.f. the Liberty Bell and Valley Forge.
When my husband and I were first married, we went out to Ohio for my college graduation and then on the way home we stopped off at Fort Necessity. This was one of George Washington's first assignments, which was to make a road and secure the area around Pittsburgh against the French for the British Colonies. |
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