Perkasie Historical Society
Volunteers have kept Perkasie's history since 1954, with a museum wedged into a former Lehigh Valley Transit trolley station on Walnut Street that opens weekend afternoons, May through December. They also look after the 1832 South Perkasie covered bridge and the Menlo Park carousel, where a ride still runs fifty cents.
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Peek of Perkasie: Business and Industry (Cigars)
Cigars built this town and the museum has the photographs and artifacts to prove it. Four hours in the former trolley station on Walnut Street, first of two days.
Peek of Perkasie: Business and Industry (Cigars)
Second day of the cigar industry display at the historical society museum. Noon to four in the former trolley station, with the rest of the Perkasie collection open alongside it.
Peek of Perkasie: Business and Industry
The Historical Society opens the old trolley station for First Friday with photographs and artifacts from the town's cigar businesses. The building itself is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Peek of Perkasie: Business and Industry
Fall Fest day at the former Lehigh Valley Transit trolley station, with photographs and artifacts from the cigar industry that once employed half the town. Four hours, a short walk from the town center.
Perkasie Historical Society Speaker Series: My Dear Général
Jeff Finegan digs into the father-and-son bond between George Washington and the young Marquis de Lafayette, drawn from the third book in his I Knew George Washington series. Dinner runs $15 and needs a reservation.
Early Perkasie History Walking Tour
Society guides walk you to the first house in town and the Stout family cemetery, explaining how transportation, cigars, clothing and baseball built the place. Five dollars suggested, meeting at the museum.
Unusual Occurrences Along the Railroad Lantern Light Tour
An evening walk by lantern light to the spots along the tracks where strange things happened, with guides telling each story where it took place. Five dollars suggested, meet at the museum.
Peek of Perkasie: Transportation
Perkasie grew up around the train and the trolley, and this display traces how. An operating model train runs alongside the photographs, in the trolley station the museum lives in.
Peek of Perkasie: Transportation
Second day of the transportation display at the old trolley station, with an operating model train running beside photographs of the rail and trolley lines that built the borough.
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Two white suspension footbridges the WPA strung across Lake Lenape in 1938, modeled on the same Roebling design behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Roughly 500 feet of towers and cable over the creek, and still the only suspension bridges anywhere in Pennridge.
Mood's Covered Bridge
An 1874 covered bridge over the Perkiomen's northeast branch, burned by arson in 2004 and rebuilt in period lattice-truss style, reopening in February 2008. One salvaged piece of the original truss is built into the new frame, and it still carries about 2,000 cars a day just outside town.
