PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves. They did this knowing that the woman, also known as Betsy Ross, isn’t there. In her busy afterlife,
A measure was introduced to City Council to rename the Henry B. Clarke House as the Henry B. and Caroline Clarke/Bishop Louis Henry and Margaret Ford House. The change will better reflect all of the home’s most influential owners, city officials said.
Special guest Agnes Wynne Phillips was honored last week by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Arkansas for her contributions to the Dallas County Museum at Fordyce.
Native American leaders and historians clashed Thursday over whether to remove a stone statue of a highly controversial figure on the outside of the state Capitol for his actions in 1637.