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Woodrow Wilson - Marker Retired by Commission on 9/14/2021

Woodrow Wilson - Marker Retired by Commission on 9/14/2021 is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, dedicated 1958.

New Gulph Rd. at entrance to college, near Caversham Rd., Bryn Mawr

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Educator, statesman, President. Here, at Bryn Mawr College, Wilson held his first teaching position. From 1885, when the college opened, until 1888, he taught history and politics in nearby Taylor Hall.

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1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1885 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1894 · Norristown, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1901 · Philadelphia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1902 · Philadelphia and vicinity, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware / Henry Gannett, chief… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering the location of Woodrow Wilson - Marker Retired by Commission on 9/14/2021, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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