Updates

Winter House Tours Cliveden house tours are available on a limited basis during the winter months. Tours are available by appointment Monday – Friday, 10am to 4pm. To schedule a tour, please contact Education Director Carolyn Wallace at [email protected]. Visitors will view the current exhibition, The Turmoil of Transition: The mid-nineteenth century at Cliveden and is…

Check out Cliveden’s new project, revealing Germantown during the 1777 Battle of Germantown Revealing Revolutionary Germantown explores the Battle of Germantown (October 4, 1777) and highlights the sites in Germantown impacted by this historic event.  Cliveden offers handouts featuring an illustrated map of the battle on one side and site descriptions on the other side.…

Three blog posts on the AAGG’s research into the Chew Family Papers & putting a spotlight on discoveries! Adrienne Whaley and the members of the African American Genealogy Group of Philadelphia (AAGG) have worked with the Chew Family Papers for the last two years to lift up stories of the enslaved families and communities that…

2022 Cliveden Conversation Series Cliveden, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the African American Genealogy Group collaborated for the program Finding Black Families: Stories from The Chew Family Papers on Tuesday, February 22nd. The conversation discussed discoveries of Black families, free and enslaved, who labored for the Chew family found in the Chew Family Papers. …