Category: Upper Darby
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Working on the house
First set of pictures below are the porch renovation, I am working on that. A shot of part of our garden. Then the electrical work which is all over the house, replacing every receptacle, switch and light with new electrical lines (removing the “knob and tube” wiring that dates back 106 years.
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Local History
Above, landscape painting Looking Toward Sellers Hall from Mill Bank c.1818. Sellers Hall is on the horizon, center left
I was surprised and pleased to find that Charles Willson Peale was a friend of the Sellers family. Here in this community Sellers Hall and Sellers Library are well known for being a stop on the Underground Railroad.
“The painter Charles Willson Peale, (1741-1827) who voted for the abolition of slavery as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1780,[9] was a frequent visitor of Sellers Hall. His distant view of Sellers Hall (1818) is an early example of American landscape painting.[10] Peale’s daughter, Sophonisba (1786-1859), married Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), and Peale’s granddaughter, the landscape painter Anna Sellers (1824-1905), lived at Sellers Hall.[11] ” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellers_Hall
