{"id":72585,"date":"2025-12-29T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:26:10","slug":"keith-lockharts-history-mystery-for-dec-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72585\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Lockhart\u2019s History Mystery for Dec. 28, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Keith Lockhart is knee deep in photos, postcards and photo-based illustrations from days gone by, some of which might be out of the memory of anyone alive in Delaware County, especially today\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s cataloging these markers of the past, and that\u2019s where your help comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Keith says this week\u2019s mystery is a very early picture c.1912 of the Colwyn Fire Company members marching on an unknown street in Colwyn. He\u2019s looking for the block, cross street etc., anything identifiable.<\/p>\n<p>Think you know something? Keith\u2019s email is keith106@rcn.com. Check out more from Keith at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/delawarecountyhistory.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delawarecountyhistory.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you had to say about last week\u2019s mystery regarding Clifton Heights\u2019 first school:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cToday\u2019s mystery photo is a good one. I don\u2019t know the answer, but a 1906 map shows \u201cPUB. SCH.\u201d on the first block of North Diamond Street, about where the old Clifton Elementary School was located. I don\u2019t think it is the same building as what I knew as the elementary school though. I recall that there were still brick walks in the vicinity of Diamond St. and Harrison Ave. in the early \u201970s and it looks like today\u2019s postcard might show a brick sidewalk (hard to tell).\u201d \u2014 Greg Shaffer<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cThe Clifton Heights Public School Building was located on North Diamond Street above Baltimore Pike and below Harrison Avenue on the east side of the street. Its former site corresponds to the area where the homes at 51\u201357 North Diamond Street stand today.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Dennis &amp; Jack McKnight<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cThe original Clifton Heights Elementary school was built in 1912 located on Diamond Avenue near Baltimore Avenue. The school building was the primary public school facility in the area for many years before being demolished in 1953 to make way for a new elementary school on the same site.\u201d \u2014 Kevin Ostien.<\/p>\n<p>We think it\u2019s a mystery no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historian Keith Lockhart is knee deep in photos, postcards and photo-based illustrations from days gone by, some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,182,139,28,69,71,70,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-72585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-delaware-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-top-stories-dtd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}