Perkasie Park To Hold Annual Founders Day Celebration On August 4, 2018
Victorian camp meeting location marks 136th year of continuous operations
PERKASIE, Pa. (July 11, 2018) The Historic Perkasie Park Association will open its privately owned Victorian camp meeting grounds to the public again this August, as the Association celebrates its 136th anniversary with its fifth annual Founders Day.
The free event is from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., rain or shine, on August 4, 2018. Local residents may attend, but parking is very limited, so visitors are asked to park on Ninth Street if able to do so.
Visitors can take part in a self-guided tour of the Park during the day. Refreshments also will be available for purchase at the Park’s historic refreshment stand.
A special presentation about the Park’s unique history will be at 4 p.m., featuring many rare photographs of Victorian-era Perkasie and film from the 1950s and 1960s.
The Park features 60 Victorian-era cottages, a historic outdoor auditorium, and other buildings located on 21 acres of open space within Perkasie Borough. It is a summertime community for association members who travel from as near as South Perkasie and as far as Texas, Florida and Arizona to spend time there.
Perkasie Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2016 as a Historic District; it also has been designated as a Historic Structure by Perkasie Borough. Its auditorium is on the Bucks County Heritage Conservancy list. The Park has held summertime religious services in the auditorium since 1882 and it has hosted services for nearly every religious group in the local Perkasie/Pennridge region.
For more information, contact:
Scott Bomboy, Chairman, Perkasie Park Founders Day Committee, 200 South Ninth Street, Perkasie, PA. Phone: 215-527-1016. E-mail: [email protected]. Media can use images, with credit, available at www.perkasiepark.com.
PERKASIE, Pa. (July 11, 2018) The Historic Perkasie Park Association will open its privately owned Victorian camp meeting grounds to the public again this August, as the Association celebrates its 136th anniversary with its fifth annual Founders Day.
The free event is from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., rain or shine, on August 4, 2018. Local residents may attend, but parking is very limited, so visitors are asked to park on Ninth Street if able to do so.
Visitors can take part in a self-guided tour of the Park during the day. Refreshments also will be available for purchase at the Park’s historic refreshment stand.
A special presentation about the Park’s unique history will be at 4 p.m., featuring many rare photographs of Victorian-era Perkasie and film from the 1950s and 1960s.
The Park features 60 Victorian-era cottages, a historic outdoor auditorium, and other buildings located on 21 acres of open space within Perkasie Borough. It is a summertime community for association members who travel from as near as South Perkasie and as far as Texas, Florida and Arizona to spend time there.
Perkasie Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2016 as a Historic District; it also has been designated as a Historic Structure by Perkasie Borough. Its auditorium is on the Bucks County Heritage Conservancy list. The Park has held summertime religious services in the auditorium since 1882 and it has hosted services for nearly every religious group in the local Perkasie/Pennridge region.
For more information, contact:
Scott Bomboy, Chairman, Perkasie Park Founders Day Committee, 200 South Ninth Street, Perkasie, PA. Phone: 215-527-1016. E-mail: [email protected]. Media can use images, with credit, available at www.perkasiepark.com.
