Next Meeting:   The Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area will hold our next quarterly meeting and annual banquet on Wednesday, September 16, 2009.   It will be held at the Spring Hollow Golf Club in Spring city, PA. The speaker will be Immaculata University professor William Watson.

His topic will be "Duffy's Cut", which is a one-mile swatch of railroad track near Malvern that was owned by Phillip Duffy. He hired Irish immigrants to work on the track in 1832. Within six weeks all 57 of them died apparently of Cholera and they were buried in a mass grave. The railroad covered up their deaths. To see his web site, please click here.

Future Events:   The Society is currently hosting the Faces of Phoenixville, which is an exhibition of rarely seen photographs from our Museum's archives.   The exhibition will last until July 10, 2009.   Museum hours are Wednesday & Friday from 9 am to 3 pm and the first Sunday of the month from 1 pm to 4 pm.

The Society will sponsor a special showing of the motion picture "Bright Victory" at the Colonial Theatre on Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 2 pm. It was filmed at the Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville in the early 1950s, and it tells the story of a blinded soldier. The Society will feature a special exhibit of photos and memorabilia from the Valley Forge General Hospital during July and August.

Our December quarterly meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, at 7:30 pm at the Phoenixville Federal Bank & Trust Conference Center located at 564 Nutt Road, Phoenixville, PA.  Our speaker will be announced at a letter date.

We have guest speakers at our quarterly meetings. To see a list of our past speakers since 2002, please click here for past speakers.

Museum Hours:   The museum is open all year to the public on Wednesdays and Fridays between 9 am and 3 pm and the first Sunday of each month between 1 pm and 4 pm.

To see Phoenixville weather, please click here.

Mission Statement:   The mission of the Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area is to identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials and information pertaining to Phoenixville area history in order to assist and educate the public in understanding and appreciating their Phoenixville area heritage and how it relates to their lives.

Brief Society History:   The Society was organized in 1977 from a Bicentennial planning group. The Society acquired the former Central Lutheran Church at Main & Church Streets in Phoenixville in 1980.  This building houses the administrative office, museum, and social hall at the Church Street level with additional storage upstairs.

The present building was erected in 1873 to replace a smaller church of plainer architecture.  The 1873 edifice is an English Gothic style building made of Chester County fieldstone.

Phoenix Iron & Steel Documents:   The Society has close ties with the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester  and The Hagley Library in Greenville, DE, which houses papers of the Phoenix Iron & Steel Co. and the Phoenix Bridge Company.

Meetings:   Quarterly meetings are held on the second Wednesday in December, March, and June starting at 7:30 pm.  The annual dinner meeting is held in September.  All meetings are open to Society members and their friends as well as the general public.

The Newsletter:  Is published quarterly and contains articles of local historical interest as well as news of the Society's activities, membership, and local events. 

Please click to download a copy of the membership application as a Word document.

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