Dear listers, I apologize for the long message I am forwarding, but it may be relevant to Walker descendants in Pennsylvania. Thanks, Kim Spangrude On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Tom Hill for MMNA wrote: > Quaker-Roots Listers, > > > > This came through on my old e-mail address and appears relevant to WALKER descendants as well as its questions about burials outside the burial-ground wall. Of course, the first referenced meeting with the developer was last night, but the genealogy issues remain for those of you who do people genealogy. > > > > Tom Hill > > > > Thomas C. Hill > > Charlottesville, VA 22901-6355 U.S.A. > > formerly Cincinnati, OH > > <http://www.quakermeetings.com/> www.QuakerMeetings.com > > E-mail: <mailto:MonthlyMeetings@gmail.com> MonthlyMeetings@gmail.com > > > > _____ > > From: "J. Kunin" > > Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:28:27 -0500 > > To: Alan Buckingham; Tom Hill; Gwen Boyer Bjorkman > > Subject: Your Thread: "Valley Meeting (Lewis Walker)"--Important Information RE: Potential Development of Property > > > > We found your thread on Ancestry.Com as we were researching the history of Valley Friends Meeting, 1121 Old Eagle School Road, Wayne, PA (Post Office address) The Meeting is actually located in Tredyffrin Township. It is across Old Eagle School Road just opposite the Burial ground and the property once owned by Lewis Walker. > > The former Walker Property, now commonly and locally referred to as "the Richter Tract" for the current owner, is under contract to be sold to a local developer who intends to build townhouses and carriage houses on the property adjacent and just on the west side of the cemetery wall. He has stated interest in building an office building, an apartment building, townhouses, carriage houses, and a WaWa combination convenience store and gas station. He has been in discussion with Township officials for a year, although the matter has only just been made public. Neither the Township nor the developer had notified the Valley Friends Meeting of the proposal, amorphous though the developer and Township officials claim it to be. The residents of Tredyffrin Township are angry and have protested about this development. The Township is in the process of writing a storm water management ordinance that will accommodate the developer's stated plan. > > We noticed that at least one of the contributors to the above quoted Ancestry.Com thread is a descendant of Lewis Walker. We are hoping that some or all of you will be able to attend a meeting to be held at the Tredyffrin Township Building, Duportail Road, Chesterbrook. The Post Office address for the Township Building is Berwyn, PA, though the actual location is in the Chesterbrook development on Chesterbrook Boulevard. Duportail Road is at the south end of Chesterbrook Boulevard just north of Route 202. > > The meeting is Monday, March 5, 2012, 7:00 pm. This is the third meeting on this matter and there will be more. The March 5th meeting is directly with the developer and Township officials are, according to what has been said, not coming to this meeting. > > We understand that there is a spring on the Lewis Walker property and wondered if you knew where it is located. We understand that, after meeting originally in Lewis Walker's home, a log building was constructed on his property which was used as a hospital during Washington's Valley Forge Encampment. We wondered, also, if the location of that building is known. We wondered, as well, if there are any burials outside the western wall of the cemetery. > > The current Valley Friends Meeting building, on the east side of Old Eagle School Road, was built in 1871. > > We hope you will join with us in our efforts to save the Lewis Walker property, aka the Richter tract. > > Thank you for reading and forwarding this letter to others interested parties who might help with this rescue. > > Yours, > Richard and Jacqueline Kunin > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message