PRESS RELEASES

May 16, 2011: TRAPPE-COLLEGEVILLE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
Details Announced

March 1, 2009: NEW LIFE FOR RARE FREDERICK MUHLENBERG PORTRAIT
Local art conservator contributes services to The Speaker’s House

December 2, 2008: SPEAKER'S CHOICE AWARDS PRESENTED AT ANNUAL MEETING

November 11, 2008: CONGRESSMAN JIM GERLACH AND COUNTY COMMISSIONER JOE HOEFFEL TO RECEIVE SPEAKER’S CHOICE AWARDS
LEADERS IN PRESERVATION WILL BE HONORED AT SPEAKER’S HOUSE ANNUAL MEETING

May 28, 2008: ROOFLINE OF FREDERICK MUHLENBERG’S 1780S GENERAL STORE REVEALED:
DOCUMENTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND ARCHITECTURAL INVESTIGATIONS UNCOVER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPEAKER’S HOUSE

April 22, 2008: CONGRESSMAN JIM GERLACH AND COMMISSIONER JOE HOEFFEL SHOW THEIR SUPPORT OF THE SPEAKER’S HOUSE: FREDERICK MUHLENBERG HISTORICAL MARKER INSTALLED

March 1, 2008: SPEAKER’S HOUSE ESTABLISHED SGT. JOHN T. BUBECK MEMORIAL FUND

February 28, 2008: MUSEUMS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES: A BERMAN MUSEUM OF ART – SPEAKER’S HOUSE JOINT PUBLIC PROGRAM

January 4, 2008: MUHLENBERG PORTRAIT DONATED TO SPEAKER’S HOUSE

October 4, 2007: SPEAKER’S HOUSE RECEIVES STATE GRANT FOR MASONRY RESTORATION

September 28, 2007: SAVE THE SPEAKER’S HOUSE HIRES FIRST EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NEWSLETTERS

Spring/Summer 2011     Fall/Winter 2011

Fall 2010

Winter 2009     Summer 2009     Fall 2009

Spring 2008     Summer 2008     Fall 2007

Spring 2007     Fall 2007

LINKS OF INTEREST

The Speaker's House Facebook page, MySpace page and Blog.

United States Congress Biography of Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg

United States Congress Biography of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg

Augustus Lutheran Church
Official website.

Berman Museum of Art at Ursins College
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College offers a diversity of exhibitions and programming which have educated, influenced, and served as a cultural resource for the community in the Tri-state region. In addition to an outstanding permanent collection which includes 19th and 20th century American paintings by the Peale family, Walter Elmer Schofield, and Walter Baum, Japanese prints, South East Asian antiquities, an extensive collection of Pennsylvania German artifacts and the largest private collection of sculpture by British artist Lynn Chadwick, the entire Ursinus campus is home to over forty (40) contemporary outdoor sculptures.

Historical Society of Montgomery County
Collecting and preserving Montgomery County, PA, for over 125 years.

Historical Society of Trappe, Collegevile, Perkiomen Valley
Official website.

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania
The Mennonite Heritage Center tells the story of Mennonite faith and life in southeastern Pennsylvania. Its architecture, with lines modeling the simplicity of traditional Pennsylvania Mennonite meetinghouses, points towards the spiritual center of Mennonite life. The concept was that "church" was congregation, not the building in which they "met." The building also suggests rural images of mill, barn and house, while exhibits show the movement toward a more urban society, giving contemporary expression to a deep-rooted heritage.

Millbrook Society
The Millbrook Society is a non-profit organization, whose mission is historical preservation, education, presentation, and Archaeology; with an emphasis on local history. We serve as the Historical commission and Historical Society for the Borough of Hatboro, Pennsylvania; and the Hatboro-Horsham School District. The Millbrook Society is a multi-faceted, constantly evolving entity. Please continue exploring this site to keep up to date on this most interesting historical organization.

Pennsylvania German Society
The Pennsylvania German Society is a nonprofit, educational organization devoted to the study of the Pennsylvania German people and their 300-year history in America.

Philadelphia Deed Index
The Philadelphia Deed Index contains all of William Penn's family deeds from the Indian nation, the very original deeds of Philadelphia County before the Montgomery County deeds.  The Montgomery County Archives has the index and both Philadelphia and Montgomery County deeds, so this single resource can follow the links from Montgomery County to Philadelphia County.

Trappe Borough
Official website of the Borough of Trappe, founded in 1717.

Trappe Today and Tomorrow
Trape Today and Tomorrow (TTT) is a group dedicated to the revitalization of historic Trappe. TTT is a volunter, non-profit organization founded in 2010 with the goal of supporting current and future businesses in Trappe as well as fostering a strong sense of community in which all residents can share.

Weiser Homestead
The Conrad Weiser Homestead features the small, 18th century frontier residence of Conrad Weiser, a pivotal figure in Colonial Pennsylvania, who served as ambassador and interpreter to the Iroquois Nation.

Peter Wentz Farmstead Society
The mission of the Peter Wentz Farmstead Society is to preserve and interpret an 18th century Pennsylvania German farmstead, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, by stimulating public interest and support of the site's heritage through educational programs and public events focusing on the architecture, crafts, customs and furnishings of the period.