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3 unusual facts about Pennypacker


Pennypacker

Morton Pennypacker, collector of historical material about Long Island

Pennypacker Mills, a colonial revival mansion in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania

Pickering Valley Railroad

A torrential rainstorm had washed out a portion of the track near Kimberton, and a passenger train from Phoenixville, carrying about 130 people, including many returning from a Pennypacker family reunion, ran into the washout.


Raystown Lake

No one knows how much time and thought was put into the project idea, but eventually permanent charters for the development of the stream were granted by the Commonwealth and signed by Governor Pennypacker on the 30th of March, 1906 (Drake, 1905).


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