FRENCHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL – Less than a month after the Hillside Academy burned down on March 20, 1923, the school board voted to rebuild on...

ISLANDS IN THE DELAWARE New Life Island – hugs the Pennsylvania shoreline just south of the Frenchtown bridge. Over the years it has been...

CEMETERY – The Frenchtown Cemetery began as the Prevost family graveyard. Paul Prevost was the founder of Frenchtown. In 1810 the first...

BARRETT, Franklin “Frank” – (1941-2013) inherited the house on the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Milford Road in Frenchtown from...

TELEPHONES PART II – In 1960, the Shurtz mansion was still home of Frenchtown's telephone switchboard operators. It stood on the...

TELEPHONES – In the spring of 1901 Frenchtown Borough Council granted William Strouse and Wesley Bodine the right to install telephone...

LIGHTNING STRIKES Death on Third Street – On Aug. 27, 1888, during the lunch break at the Upper Third Street spoke factory in Frenchtown,...

FOURTH OF JULY – In the 20th and 21st centuries, Independence Day hasn't received the amount of attention in Frenchtown that Memorial Day...

SLAVERY – Maybe it's a good thing we haven't erected a statue of Frenchtown's founder, Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost. Because his Front...

MURDERS Hazel May Cronce Shrope – was killed by her former sweetheart Amos Hart Jr. in Raubsville, Pa., on Saturday, Oct. 15, 1938....

THE STAIRS – The walkability of Frenchtown took a leap forward in November of 1888 when a wooden stairway was built above Fourth Street...

SCHOOLS Second Hillside Academy – The new and grander Hillside Academy opened in mid-September of 1901, built by John W. Lancaster...

SCHOOLS The First Hillside Academy – In the 1850s Hugh Capner, the developer who had laid out Second through Fifth streets, donated an...

APPENDIX C of "Rick's Frenchtown Encyclopedia" THINGS THAT YOU WILL FIND AT BRITTON BROS.' You can learn a lot by plowing through the...

BRITTON BROS. BIG BRICK STORE -- The Britton brothers were Daniel D. (1850-1923) a sewing-machine agent, and George M. (1854-1917) a...

AGEE, James – (1909-1955) a Pulitzer-prize winning author who resided in Frenchtown from the spring of 1938 to the summer of '39....

GUNS – Like the rest of rural America, Frenchtown has enjoyed its guns. Shooting matches were held on “the flat” (now Borough Park) a...

CHURCHES Christian – Built in 1846 at what is now 15-17 Kingwood Avenue, the Christian Church had a wooden spire that gave the building a...

HUMMER, Anna M. – (1924-2006) Anna was born in Milford to Floyd and Anna Hummer, and was living at 5 Twelfth Street in 1942. One day a...

ISLANDS IN THE DELAWARE Marshall's Island – is a few miles south of Frenchtown, and is part of Tinicum Township, Pa. The 200-acre island...