Wall House (The Ivy)

Montgomery County · dedicated 1982 · S end of Wall Park Dr., just off Church Rd. (SR2023), Elkins Park

Original section, dated from 1682, was built by Richard Wall on land granted by William Penn. An early meeting place of the Society of Friends, 1683-1702. Additions were built about 1725 and 1805. Sarah Wall married George Shoemaker, 1694, and their descendants lived here to 1847. Purchased from the Bosler family, 1932, by Cheltenham Township.

5.6 miles from where Elizabeth Parker lived in the 1690s

what this marker records spans 1682 to 1932, overlapping Elizabeth Parker's years here

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