• Philadelphia Beekeeping Before 1719

    Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Keeping bees (apiculture) was new to North America in the 1600s, brought to the north-east by English and German colonists to produce honey and wax. The earliest record of apiculture in Pennsylvania explains how German settlers in Germantown kept honeybees, cultivated honey and wax, and celebrated bees with poems and stories. Join historian Miranda Mote […]

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