Document Collection

TEHS Research Files - Folder Headings; March, 2013.

Folder designations are not updated annually.

Series 1 - Biographical files in one series, including TEHS members, and Family Names, A-Z, and a Misc. Obits file.
Series 2 – Municipalities, Past and Present (general history, political issues, police and fire depts., post offices, school districts, zoning, board of managers, public issues, etc.)

Berwyn
Cedar Hollow
Charlestown Township
Chester County
Chester Springs & Historic Yellow Springs
Daylesford
Devault / Cedar Hollow
Devon
East Whiteland
Easttown Township
Howellville
Main Line
Malvern
Paoli
Strafford
Tredyffrin Township
Valley Forge
Wayne

Series 3 - Subject files Agriculture (also see Farms)
Architects – see Biographical files
Architecture
Art
Artists – see Biographical files
Bridges
Businesses &Shopping Centers A-Z (all municipalities)
Canals
Caves
Cemeteries
Census
Churches (by denomination)
Cultural Groups (Swedes, Welsh, etc.)
Directories (also see Businesses)
Disasters
Elections
Entertainment, Music, Theatres
Farms and Farm Buildings (inc. barns, springhouses)
Food and Dining
Forges
Equestrian Events and Fox Hunting
Geology
Golf Courses

Historic Homes & Buildings (also see Vassar Show Houses)
Hospitals and Pharmacies
Inns, Taverns, Hotels
Libraries

Medicine
Memorials (Signs, Markers, Tablets)
Military (also see Wars)
Mills
Mines

Native Americans
Nature
Newspapers and Magazines

Organizations & Clubs (TEHS records are filed elsewhere.)

Parades and Celebrations
Parks, Gardens and Arboreta

Quarries
Recollections and Oral Histories
Residential Communities (inc. Chesterbrook, post-1977)
Rivers and Creeks
Roads and Turnpikes

Schools – Private (all municipalities)
Schools – Public (all municipalities)

Science
Scouting (all scouting activity)
Sports

Transportation
  • Airplanes & Air Fields
  • Automobiles
  • Horse-Drawn Vehicles
  • Railroads & RR Stations
Vassar Show Houses

Wars:
  • American Revolution
  • Civil War
  • World War I
  • World War II

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