The Cheltenham Historical Commission will host a lecture titled “Early Glenside” on Thursday, May 14 at 7:30pm at 1250 Church Road in Wyncote.

Historian Thomas Wieckowski, vice-president of the Old York Road Historical Society and chair of the Cheltenham Township Historical Commission, will be speaking.

In February, Wieckowski published a book titled “A History of Early Glenside”. From the description:

In 1857, the rutted Germantown & Willow Grove Turnpike passed through farmland as it crossed paths with the bustling North Penn Railroad. The community of Glenside would one day be the result of that crossing. A visitor getting off the train would see green vistas of rolling fields, tasseled corn, and lounging cows. Discovering the area in the mid-nineteenth century, wealthy industrialists constructed lavish country estates to escape the health perils of the city in the summer, and by the end of the century, enterprising developers had begun dividing the land into plots for respectable country homes for Philadelphia’s burgeoning middle class.

You can purchase a copy here.

More details about the lecture in the flyer below:

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