Social Science & History Department

Phone 215-686-5396
Website https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/departments/social-science-and-history-department

Events from this organizer

Today

  • 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 […]

    Free

  • Ornamental Plants in Philadelphia Gardens in the Early 1700s

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

    Before 1750, Philadelphia gardens were not just kitchen gardens, they also cultivated lots of ornamental plants, grown for their beauty, colors, scent, and to make nature prints as a form of botanical art. Many of these plants were imported from Europe, but some were native to the Pennsylvania region. There were gardens in Germantown and […]

    Free