PRINTER'S NO. 2035
No. 321 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY CRAHALLA, RUBLEY, ADOLPH, BAKER, BALDWIN, BARRAR, BASTIAN, BEBKO-JONES, BENNINGHOFF, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CAUSER, CLYMER, CORNELL, CORRIGAN, COSTA, CRUZ, DALEY, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, D. EVANS, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FICHTER, FLEAGLE, FORCIER, FRANKEL, GEIST, GEORGE, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HERMAN, HERSHEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, JAMES, LEDERER, LEH, MAJOR, MANDERINO, MARSICO, McGILL, METCALFE, MUSTIO, NAILOR, PAYNE, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, PISTELLA, QUIGLEY, REED, ROBERTS, ROHRER, ROSS, SAINATO, SATHER, SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SHANER, SHAPIRO, B. SMITH, STABACK, R. STEVENSON, TANGRETTI, E. Z. TAYLOR, TIGUE, TRUE, WALKO, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND ZUG, JUNE 3, 2005
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, JUNE 3, 2005
A RESOLUTION 1 Congratulating Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, on 2 the celebration of the 200th anniversary of its founding. 3 WHEREAS, Lenni Lenape tribesmen favored the area of present- 4 day Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, for hunting 5 and for the excellent fishing Perkiomen Creek and Skippack Creek 6 afforded; and 7 WHEREAS, Evansburg, settled by English Anglicans as part of 8 William Penn's Holy Experiment, was conceived in the early 18th 9 century as one of our nation's first planned villages; and 10 WHEREAS, Agriculture, industry, copper mining and commerce 11 thrived during the post-Revolutionary period in the area then 12 known as Providence Township, which was until September 1784
1 part of Philadelphia County; and 2 WHEREAS, Providence Township split in 1805 into Upper 3 Providence Township and Lower Providence Township; and 4 WHEREAS, Evansburg as well as the communities of Audubon, 5 Eagleville, Trooper and Yerkes comprise Lower Providence 6 Township; and 7 WHEREAS, Lower Providence Township attractions include a 8 portion of Valley Forge National Historic Park, Evansburg State 9 Park and Mill Grove, home of wildlife artist and naturalist John 10 James Audubon, in the 175-acre Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary; 11 therefore be it 12 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives congratulate 13 Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, on the celebration 14 of the 200th anniversary of its founding. D19L82DMS/20050H0321R2035 - 2 -