#ThrowbackThursday – This photo was taken in 1899 or 1900, shortly after the railroad replaced the “
#ThrowbackThursday – This photo was taken in 1899 or 1900, shortly after the railroad replaced the “Alnwick Grove” sign on the train station with “Bryn Athyn.” (Several years later a different train station was built just across the tracks, which now serves as the borough’s post office.) “Bryn Athyn” as a name for the village was first suggested as a possibility by Bishop William F. Pendleton, who had found the two Welsh words in “An English-Welsh Pronouncing Dictionary,” published by William Spurrell in 1872. Pendleton assumed that the two words placed together meant “hill of cohesion” (that is, hill of unity or togetherness). On September 25, 1899, “Bryn Athyn” was chosen by the Village Association in a vote of 6 to 3. Learn more about the naming of Bryn Athyn in Glencairn’s current exhibition, “A Hill of Unity: The Founding of Bryn Athyn Borough.” http://ow.ly/4ndfVF -- source link
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