Merion Publications Inc history

About 1704, petitioners of Radnor and Merion asked to have a minister sent them “that understands the British language”; and Hill’s “Map of the Environs of Philadelphia” (published in 1809) indicates the original township of Merion as “The first British settlement, 18th of Sixth Month, 1682.”

A granddaughter of John Hull, who was keeper of the toll-gate on the Lancaster Turnpike at Radnor, about 1816, recalled, a few years ago, hearing him tell of disputes he had had with Indian chiefs over the payment of toll for their parties!

It was many years before Lower Merion had a road all along this boundary; Levering’s map of 1851 shows that at that time, a mile of it, next to the Schuylkill, was still unopened.

According to a map of 1857, one of the Gulph hills was “Conshohocken”, but others say, with much more reason, that the name belonged to what is now called Prospect hill, in Lower Merion.

At the center of the display, a glass case contains the “Grand Slam” trophies – from the United States Open, British Open, United States Amateur and British Amateur – won in 1930 by Bob Jones.

The focus today is the same as it was in 1971: to provide exceptional customer service, quality materials, reliable information, and a variety of new products, to assist architects, artists, designers, and crafters so they may to further develop and enrich their creative process.

When Mutch started the project in early 2001, there were approximately 15 boxes of haphazardly stored artifacts.