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Germantown Pike (also known as Germantown Avenue for a portion of its length) is a historic road in Pennsylvania that opened in 1687, [1] running from Philadelphia northwest to Collegeville. The road is particularly notable for the "imposing mansions" that existed in the Germantown neighborhood in Philadelphia.
On August 19, 2022, Yvens Jean, aged 23, died in the parking lot of the Norwood delivery station. His cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head via a Glock pistol. Jean’s death was ruled a suicide. [10]
Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
Stephen Rush House, located at 3851 Germantown Pike, is a two-story fieldstone structure that served as a center of food and drink to travelers along Germantown Pike. This Inn was built about 1803 on land purchased from St. James Church. Evansburg Inn, located at 3833 Germantown Pike, is a large, two-story plastered fieldstone inn with end ...
The Germantown Boys' Club, 23 W. Penn Street, 1898-1909 [38] Germantown High School, 5901-13 and 5915-41 Germantown Avenue [39] Gilbert Stuart Studio; Green Tree Tavern (Germantown) [40] [41] The Jonathan Graham House, 5356 Chew Avenue, Germantown [42] The King Green House, 5112-14 Germantown Avenue [43] The Leibert House, 6950 Germantown ...
Leon Jerome Moser (September 15, 1942 – August 16, 1995) [1] was an American convicted murderer who was executed in Pennsylvania for the 1985 murders of his ex-wife and two daughters in Montgomery County.
Philadelphia, especially its Germantown section, was a center of the 19th-century American movement to abolish slavery, and the Johnson House was one of the key sites of that movement. Between 1770 and 1908, the house was the residence of five generations of the Johnson family.
Maulsby built or altered the Cater Corner House (c.1802), at the southeast corner of Butler Pike and Flourtown Road, possibly as housing for Thomas Davis, a free-Black limeburner recorded as living on his property. [12] At 3-5 Germantown Pike, just east of his house, Maulsby built the Plymouth Meeting General Store and Post Office (c.1826–27 ...