The Montgomery Area Historical Society
Dedicated to Preserving the history of:
MONTGOMERY BOROUGH
CLINTON TOWNSHIP
BRADY TOWNSHIP
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP
What is the Montgomery Area Historical Society?
Friends and neighbors who share an interest in preserving and sharing in our proud heritage.
Our Mission:
Collect, preserve, document and exhibit the history of this area.
To Provide specialties and educational programs for all ages
We would like to encourage your attendance and participation at our monthly meetings.
If you have any ideas or suggestions for improvement of your society, please feel free to contact any of our members.
Please Join Us
Learn more about our local history at our monthly meetings which are held on the third Tuesday of every month at the Montgomery Borough Hall - 35 South Main Street - Montgomery
A program is held at each meeting.
Past programs include:
Tour of the newly renovated Montgomery Library
"If Trees Could Talk"
History of Montgomery
The Story of Your Road (presented by the East Lycoming Historical Society)
William Hummel Murders
Tour of the Stone Church and Cemetery
We always welcome your ideas for future presentations.
Annual Membership Fees:
Individual (18 years and older) - $10.00
Family (residents of one household, excluding those 18 years and older) - $15.00
Business - $25.00
Lifetime Membership - $100.00
Membership applications are available at the Borough Office
For more information, please call PAT HERBST at 323-4488 or 547-7187, or email at pherbst@uplink.net
RECENT EVENTS:
A Book Signing and sale for "Around Montgomery" by Joan Wheal Blank (Arcadia Publishing; $19.99) took place on Friday, March 21 at the Montgomery Area Public Library at the corner of Main Street and Houston Avenue. Joan and the Society would like to thank everyone that attended. A total of 140 books were sold! Also, over $200 of raffle tickets were sold that day.
The Montgomery Library will continue to have a supply of the books, which highlight the first 50 years of the Borough (1887-1937) for sale after March 21.
UPCOMING EVENTS...
The Christ Lutheran Church at 50 E Houston Avenue will be the location, and subject, of the next meeting. This meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 7 PM. Cathy Buck will discuss the early history of the church - Its beginnings at a planning session in November 1886; The growth of the congregation over the next four decades; The years of rebuilding after a fire in 1928, and the dedication of the new sanctuary in 1952.
The public is invited to attend. The church parking lot is accessible from Pen Street (not from Houston Avenue)
