At the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners meeting on November 10^th, Lisa Paolino, 5^th Ward Commissioner and Board Vice President, asked her fellow Board members to authorize the filing of a Pennsylvania Historical Marker application for an official state sign at the Township's new park on Brook Street. According to Commissioner Paolino, the new park sits on a parcel formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Caesar Waters, a free African American couple who in the late 1700's housed the esteemed Rev. Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who was at the time preaching in Radnor Township.The Board voted unanimously to file the marker application, which will be reviewed by the state in a competitive process.

 

 

From left to right: Ted Pollard, President, Radnor Historical Society; Tom Blomstrom, Radnor Township Director of Parks and Recreation; Peggy and Lew Gaskins, members of Bethel AME Church in Bryn Mawr; Clinton Bromfield Horton, Jr., nephew to Mr. Newlin; Rev. Carlos D. Bounds, Pastor, Bethel AME Church; Mr. Thomas E. Newlin of Claymont, Delaware, great-great-great-grandnephew of Caesar Waters; Dwight Miller Newlin, nephew to Mr. Newlin; Commissioner Lisa Paolino; State Rep. Greg Vitali, (D-166); Anne Minicozzi, trustee and immediate past-president, Radnor Memorial Library board of trustees and writer of the Marker application; Amanda Ostrander-Serock, Radnor Township Director of Personnel and Public Affairs; and William C. Wermuth, Principal/Treasurer, Yerkes Associates, Inc. Rosemont.