Next Meeting:   Our next quarterly meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at 7:30 pm at the Phoenixville Federal Bank & Trust Conference Center located at 564 Nutt Road, Phoenixville, PA.  Barbara Cohen will be our guest speaker.  She will give a talk about the concept of freedom, including religious freedom, going back to William Penn in 1681 with his Charter of Religious Toleration.  Those freedoms were guiding principles for the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.  Her presentation will illustrate the early churches in Philadelphia and Chester County from both an architectural and religious perspective. 

Special Exhibit:   The current special exhibit is "Deep in the Mines: Local Mines Fuel the Industrial Revolution in Phoenixville".  It will run through March of 2012. 

Museum Information:   The Museum is free and open all year to 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. 

In the event of inclement weather, the Society will be closed if the Phoenixville Area School District is closed and will have hours that coincide with those of the Phoenixville Area School District if they have restricted hours.  The school district's closing number is 856.  

The Society has information about local genealogy, information and photos of some old buildings and homes, old local newspapers on microfilm, old photographs of people and the Phoenixville area, yearbooks from Phoenixville High School, many historical artifacts, a Phoenix Steel Column, and Etruscan Majolica. 

The Museum has an interesting collection on display of Griffen, Smith & Hill Etruscan Majolica.  Etruscan Majolica was made in Phoenixville from 1879 to 1890 when a fire destroyed the plant.

The Society has for sale at reasonable prices old maps, books about the area, tiles, photographs, old calendars with pictures of local scenes, and artifacts of local historical interest.

Follow the Society on Facebook.  Please click to link to our Facebook site.  Please click to link to Phoenixville.Patch.com that is a local web site about Phoenixville news, events, meetings, and announcements.

Phoenixville History:   Please click to view a brief History of Phoenixville.

Meetings:   Our quarterly meetings are held 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 our past meeting speakers.

The Newsletter:  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.

Members of the Society receive a newsletter and may conduct free research at our library and museum and obtain a discount on purchases of old maps, photographs, books, and historical items. 

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Looking West on Bridge Street in the 1950s

A 1914 picture of Phoenix Iron Co.

A 1960s aerial photo of Phoenixville

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