George H. Earle III (1890-1974)

Easttown Township, PA · est. 2015

First held in 1896 as a modest one-day event to showcase fine carriage horses for the Main Line's landed families, the Devon Horse Show grew into the oldest and largest outdoor multibreed competition in the nation. By adding a Country Fair in 1919, it turned its prestige to charity, benefiting Bryn Mawr Hospital. In 2010 it earned the U.S. Equestrian Federation's highest honor as a Heritage Competition.

Tredyffrin Township, PA · est. 2020

In 1932 the Tredyffrin and Easttown school districts began segregating their elementary schools, sending Black children to separate classrooms. Local Black families and their allies gathered at Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church and organized a boycott, keeping their children out of school for more than 300 days rather than accept the order. The pressure worked: officials rescinded segregation, and by 1934 the children returned to integrated schools — a victory that helped spur Pennsylvania's 1935 Equal Rights Bill.

Upper Merion Township, PA · est. 1982

This roughly 1780 house recalls the small crossroads settlement once known as Bird-in-Hand, named for the sign of a nearby tavern in the old English fashion. For years the building served as the Bird-in-Hand General Store, a gathering point for a community that also supported a forge just to the southwest. As the trades that sustained the village faded, both the store and the forge were quietly converted into homes — a common fate for early industrial hamlets swallowed by suburban growth.

Media, PA · est. 1982

Formed out of Chester County in 1789, Delaware County takes its name from the great river along which William Penn first stepped ashore in Pennsylvania in 1682. The county holds the Old Chester Courthouse of 1724, among the oldest public buildings in the country and a survivor from the colony's founding generation. Its seat, Media, was incorporated in 1850.