- Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 March 2017 16:00
The Donora Historical Society made the followimd announcements for March 2017.
Annual Membership and Fund Drive
Started in 1946, forward-looking thinkers in Donora had the presence to start collecting artifacts related to our town and assembling them into a collection that we are proud to display to this day at the Smog Museum of the Donora Historical Society.
We are in the midst of our annual membership and fund drive that helps preserve that collection. If you were a Historical Society member in 2016, we thank you for your support. If you haven’t been a recent member, we are reaching out to you to see if you might be interested in supporting some of the new and exciting things that we have planned at the Smog Museum in 2017.
Consult our website and then click on the “About Us” page to read about our past accomplishments -- all completed by a volunteer staff, and information about how to join the Society ($15/person or $25/family), to simply make a donation or become a volunteer. You can request a formal membership / donation form by sending us an email or call us and leave a voice message. Or you can simply make a check out to the "Donora Historical Society" and mail it to:
Donora Historical Society
P.O. Box 522
Donora, PA 15033
Eldora Park Walking Tour
Our first-ever Eldora Park Walking Tour will be scheduled for Saturday, March 26 or Saturday, April 1 at noon.
The tour will start at the Smog Museum in Donora with a photo and newspaper article presentation on Eldora Park. We will then drive the three miles to conduct the walking tour portion in the Eldora section of Carroll Township on the Wickerham Farm.
The cost will be $10 per person and you should allow two hours for the presentation and walking tour. If you have any questions about the tour itself or would like to be added to a signup list, please contact the historical society. All phone messages and emails will be returned and you will be notified on the status of the tour date.
Next Cement City Walking Tour Date Set
The first in a series of our seventh annual Cement City Home and Walking Tours will be scheduled for Sunday, April 23 at 1 p.m. The cost of the tour is $12/person. Allow 2.5 hours for the event. Space is limited. Please call or email to RSVP. If you have any questions about Cement City or one of our home and walking tours, please consult our website and click the “Cement City” tab, or contact the historical society.
Another tour will be scheduled in October if you can’t make the April tour, and it is encouraged to call or email to get your name added to a waiting list to get contacted when a date has been scheduled.
Additional Info
If you have additional questions about the subjects mentioned above, the society, museum, meetings or possibly volunteering, feel free to stop by on Saturdays or by special appointment (with at least 72 hours’ notice), email us at DonoraHistoricalSociety@gmail.com, call us at 724-823-0364 and leave a message, visit us on the web at www.DonoraHistoricalSociety.org, or follow us and like us on Facebook at “Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum.”
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