Become a Member
We would like to invite you to join the The Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area (HSPA).
Kindly complete an application and return it to us at your convenience.
Please click to view a copy of the membership application as a Word Document or as a PDF Document.
The Society has quarterly meetings in March, June, September, and December on a Wednesday evening starting at 7:30 pm. Our annual dinner meeting is held in September. All meetings are free and open to Society members and their friends as well as to the
general public. We have guest speakers at our meetings. Lite refreshments are served after the quarterly meetings.
Please click here to view information about our past speakers.
Members of the Society receive a quarterly newsletter and may conduct free research at our library and museum as well as obtain a discount on purchases of old maps, photographs, books, and historical items. Our newsletter is
published quarterly and contains articles of local
historical interest as well as news of the Society's activities,
membership, and local events.
The Society has a Museum that is open all year to members and the public on Wednesdays and Fridays between 9 am and 3 pm and the first Sunday of each month between 1 pm and 4 pm. The Society's hours on First Fridays is also from 6 pm to 9 pm.
The Museum has Special Exhibits and currently has an exhibit about Phoenixville Genealogy that will run through December of 2011.
The Society has had several Special Exhibits in the past year including exhibits about Phoenixville Sports, the Golden Years of Phoenixville High School from 1930 to 1979, a U. S. Military Timeline of Living History, Phoenixville Bridges to Somewhere, Music in Phoenixville, the Secret Societies in the Land of the Phoenix, and Answering the Call: Phoenixville and the Civil War.