Properties Condemned

Jury of View Makes Two Awards for Valley Forge Park Commission.

Special to the Inquirer

VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Feb. 23. - A jury of view consisting of W. E. Bushong, W. B. Cox and Harry Hause, have made the following awards of damages for land taken at the instance of the Valley Forge Park Commission for park purposes.

Francis M. Bean, who conducts the Valley Forge Silica, Sand and Ore Company plant, was awarded $8550 for his homestead property, comprising more than an acre of land and buildings thereon and a water right through the property, he had presented a claim of $18,000. David Midgley, Jr., station agent at the local depot, who also owns and conducts the local store and coal scales, was awarded $7500 for his home and store building and scales¹. He claimed $23,000 by reason of the necessity of a forced sale of his grocery stock, the loss of use of his scales and loss of a residence convenient to his work.

A hearing of the testimony with reference to the building occupied by the Patriotic Order Sons of America as a home and hall, another of the local properties being acquired by the State, has been fixed for Monday, March 3².

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday Feb. 24, 1919

Notes

1. Midgley purchased the store in 1918 for $4800 (Chester County deed H15-186). See deed history.

2. POSA purchased the land and built a hall in 1874 (deed Q8-150). See deed history.