SOLD OUT You know Louisa May Alcott as the author of the beloved young adult novel, Little Women. Although she immortalized her family’s life in Massachusetts in her writing, she was born in Pennsylvania, just miles from Graeme Park. Join her in 1868 as she visits her birth state on an author’s speaking tour, on […]
Join the Friends of Graeme Park as we celebrate the founding of Pennsylvania with a FREE tour of the Keith House and demonstration of Colonial parlor dances by the Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble. This annual statewide event commemorates the granting of the Pennsylvania Charter to William Penn and many of the historic sites along the […]
Do you have a passion for history? An interest in getting involved in the community? A desire to meet new people? Maybe you’d like to become a Graeme Park volunteer! Whether you want to give tours, help with event planning and execution, or perform light maintenance and grounds keeping duties, we might be a good […]
It’s the dead of winter, 1919, and you’re invited to join us for a theatrical, historically-based séance in the spooky, candlelit parlor of the Keith House at Graeme Park. The experience will be conducted in the style of an early 20th century séance when “mediums” and “psychics” took advantage of those for whom death was […]
For most of Graeme Park’s history, what happened to Henry Hugh Fergusson after he left America remained a mystery. We knew he petitioned the British government for restitution for “his” loss of Graeme Park when it was confiscated under the Confiscation Act of 1778. We knew he kept in touch with Elizabeth for a time, […]
On November 17 or 18, 1749 Sir William Keith, for whom the Keith House at Graeme Park was built, died in London. Death notices ran in the London Magazine (vol. 18, 1749, pg. 529) and the Gentleman’s Magazine (vol. 19, 1749, pg. 524). London Magazine reports his death as occurring on November 17, 1749 and […]
Ask any Horsham resident about Graeme Park and they’ll tell you it’s haunted! Over it’s 300-year-old history, the Keith House at Graeme Park has seen sorrow and tragedy, death and infidelity, and not all of the former residents rest easy. Your Lantern Tour guide will take you through the shadowy rooms and halls and relate […]
Ask any Horsham resident about Graeme Park and they’ll tell you it’s haunted! Over it’s 300-year-old history, the Keith House at Graeme Park has seen sorrow and tragedy, death and infidelity, and not all of the former residents rest easy. Your Lantern Tour guide will take you through the shadowy rooms and halls and relate […]
Poor Mary Mallon, as misunderstood today as she was a hundred years ago. Notoriously known as “Typhoid Mary,” she was a seemingly healthy, determined woman who immigrated from Ireland at a time when just being Irish was enough to arouse suspicion and social rejection. Being female and being poor added to her problems. Through no […]
October 6 marks the anniversary of the marriage of Sir William Keith to Ann Newbury Diggs which occurred in 1704 at The Collegiate Church of St. Katharine by the Tower – a medieval church next to the Tower of London. While the church was demolished in 1825, it was rebuilt from 1826-28 as St. Katharine’s in Regeant’s […]