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The Patriotic Order Sons of America is an American patriotic fraternal organization that traces its origins to the anti-alien riots of the 1840s. Founded in 1847 in Philadelphia, [1] the P.O.S. of A. once had "camps" (chapters) in well over 20 states. At its peak, there were more than 800 Camps in Pennsylvania alone.
The Patriotic Order Sons of America Washington Camp 422, also known as the Women's Society of Christian Service Hall, is an historic, American building that is located in Dreher Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1]
Open to acceptable white men aged 18–50 who could pass a medical examination. There were 4,500 members in the late 1890s. Membership concentrated in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. [203] Had 3,100 members in 1905, 2,300 in 1910. [204] State organizations called Grand Councils, overall organization the supreme council.
George Lippard (ca. 1850). Following the organization of the patriotic American secret societies, the Order of United American Mechanics, and the Patriotic Order of United Sons of America, at Philadelphia in 1845 and 1847, respectively, came the Brotherhood of America, at the same city, in 1850 with similar purposes and characteristics.
Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation, more commonly called just Broad Creek, is the sum of eight separate areas in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.The reservation is 3 miles (4.8 km) from the Maryland and Pennsylvania border within Harford County, 25 miles (40 km) from the Maryland and Delaware border, and 28 miles (45 km) from Baltimore.
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The right of way of the former Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway was utilized in the early 1940s for the George Palmer Highway, later renamed the Martin Luther King Jr. Highway. [7] The Addison Road Metro station opened for service on November 22, 1980. Most of the testaments to the town's past are long gone.
View north along MD 337 from MD 5 in Camp Springs. The road between the Southern Maryland Road at Camp Springs and Marlboro Pike at Meadows was included in the original state road system designed by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1909. [4] The Meadows Road was built as a 14-foot-wide (4.3 m) concrete road between 1916 and 1919.