8/27/07: Well-Known Residents has been re-worked into Notable Citizens of Wayne and Radnor!

4/23/07: The P&W page has been updated and re-designed, with some new photos.

12/26/06: New page: The Radnor Memorial Library, featuring many photos from the library's long history.

12/9/06: Updated the Your Town and My Town articles, and added three new pictures to the Business Block page, showing the new construction there. In a few days, There will be a new Radnor Library page, which will include the images found in the new history display in the Library's lobby.

7/23/06: News articles are now organized in the same format as the Your Town and My Town articles, instead of being on one big, long page.

7/9/06: The Your Town and My Town pages are all updated, and show the new design.

6/06: The site is now being redesigned from the bottom up. Beginning with the home page and Bellevue Hotel, soon all of the pages will have a new, easier to use interface. The site is now version 5.0, and it's soon to be its 5th anniversary!

1/19/06: 8 new pictures added, scanned glass plates from 1911. They can be seen in Train Wrecks (which has been revamped) and the Radnor Fire Company.

11/4/05: The Your Town and My Town articles have been re-organized. Now each article has its own page. Hopefully this system will be more attractive and easier to use. The main index page is here.

11/4/05: The Churches section has been updated. It has a new index page, which links to subsections for each church. This system will be implemented in other pages, such as Estates, in the near future. UPDATE: The Estates page is now organized the same way.

10/27/05: I've finally come up with a page design that I like, and you can see it on a few pages like Movies and Business Block. All pages will look like this soon.

9/29/05: A new format for News. The current article will have its own page, which will direct to the news archives.

9/15/05: I have updated the graphic design of the home page to be simplier, more contemporary and hopefully easier to use. Also earlier I fixed some of the table heights that did not work properly in Internet Explorer.. which apperently some visitors still use.

8/26/05: I have been working to fix all the bugs throughout the site, as well as applying a new format to display photos. This new format is the beginning of our new and exciting association with the Radnor Historical Society, which will give this site access to high quality scans of their entire photo collection! The new format separates their photo collection from non-RHS photos. I have also fixed the text on the front page; a Dreamweaver error made the text different sizes for no reason.

6/19/05: Fixed a few home page bugs (more will be fixed shortly), and resurrected the Your Town and My Town column retrospective! Click on the link at the top of this page to read.

6/17/05: Redesign of the home page, condensing things so that everything's easier to access. Let me know what you think! Coming soon: new Your Town and My Town articles (finally!), and an updated, easier to use interface on each of the pages.

6/10/05: Big update to the Well-known residents page, with a movie featuring Tom Wilson, 5 new profiles and EXCLUSIVE photos of the famous lost Middle School murals of Charles Cajori!

5/18/05: The first non-Wayne history page is now up: Beechwood Park. The fascinating story of a mysterious old amusement park in Haverford Township which lasted just two seasons in the early 20th Century.

3/21/05: The Schools Postcards page has been updated with the new, easier to use format!

3/20/05: The Schultz Photo Albums have been updated with thumbnail images, so they are faster to scroll through. Also, new House & Estates Postcards page!

2/6/05: New Period Descriptions of Wayne added, from the archives of The New York Times. Also: 4 pictures of the P&W Trail added to the new Trail page.

2/5/05: Massive update to Street and Country Scenes Postcards, with lots of new postcards, as well as modern-day scenes and a new, easier to use format. More postcard page updates soon!

1/13/05: Many new pictures of the completed P&W Trail have been added to the P&W page. Soon there will be a page especially for the Trail, so that the history and the Trail info will be separate.

12/5/04: In response to a visitor's email:
"I have a special request: please remove the apostrophe from the place name of St. Davids wherever it appears on the website for the Wayne, PA history. It may have existed at some time in the past but it does NOT exist now, and since I've lived here all of my life, I should know. I've seen people make that mistake too many times and would like to see it stopped."
All places where "St. David's" was used now say "St. Davids"!

11/29/04: Most recent visitors to this site have gotten here seeking information about the new Radnor P&W Trail, so I've added a link to that information on the front page. More revisions to come soon.

11/4/04: Added a Forum, where anybody can go to discuss Wayne and other history topics. This is the first time that this site has offered visitors to directly contribute and voice their opinions. Please check it out! The addidion of the forum and the Radnor Historical Society link makes this version 4.1.

10/27/04: 6 photos of the P&W trail construction added to the P&W page.

10/8/04: Brand new page, and the second of the new Postcard pages. Railroad Postcards features postcards which previously appeared on other pages, as well as many new cards. They picture various stations on the Pennsylvania Railroad and P&W.

10/4/04: Huge redesign and addition to the Postcard Buildings page! One by one the various Postcard pages will be updated like this, but it takes too long to do them all at once!

10/1/04: 7 exclusive pictures of the 1968 Nixon campaign stop are now in the Events section. Also: recent news stories are now on the front page.

9/30/04: The overall look of the various pages has been changed, with a san-serif, easy to read font and light blue table backgrounds. I have been working a lot lately on the aesthetic appearance of the site, and will soon add much more content.

9/18/04: Complete site redesign. My hope is that the condensed home page will be easier to navigate. The styling is also a little different; the light blue and gray backgrounds (which will soon come up in other places) is intended to break the monotony of the white background. This site version is now 4.0.

7/7/04: Added 10 people to the list of Well-Known Residents.

6/10/04: 6 photos of today's P&W trail groundbreaking added to the P&W section.

6/09/04: 3 photos of the Wayne memorial added to the Events section.

6/06/04: Just added a whopping 123 images to the new Schultz photos page. That's the most ever in a single day!! As always, more to come....

5/25/04: Huge new section, which will be updated over time as new photographs are obtained. It is a compilation of the George Schultz photo albums which can be seen at the Radnor Historical Society. This digital "album" shows many homes in the area when they were first built. These hugely important pictures can be viewed here.

4/13/04: All the pages are now consistent with the look of each other. Worked out a lot of bugs in the top menus of pages; changed fonts to be more consistent, etc. Also, added a profile of Charles Cajori to the Well-known residents section. Plus: NWPA logo and link at top of page.

4/12/04: Many updates to the appearance of the website, with a greater use of the "yellow-black-gray" scheme, including on the front page. Also, some updated title graphics and layouts on individual pages.

3/17/04: One of the most common search words that brings people to this site is "Minella's." With that in mind, the new Diners section was created. It talks about Minella's, as well as other Wayne diners.

2/28/04: After much typing (about 2000 words) the Your Town articles are now updated. Just received some great P&W photos from Matt Nawn of the Rockhill Trolley Museum which will be up shortly.

2/13/04: New page: Deconstructing Waldheim, with 28 photographs documenting the demolition of the mansion known to most as "Sullivan Hall."

2/9/04: New Documents added to the P&W section, primary sources about the closing of the trolley line. Also some new javascript to that page, which will eventually be added (hopefully) to the other pages.

1/29/04: The Wayne Station page is completely redone, with 20 pictures, half of which are new and many of which are high quality. Check it out!

1/24/04: Big update to the Radnor Station page, including new info, pictures and graphic of the "R" Signal Tower there. Also new title graphics to all the station pages.

1/19/04: New page: well known residents of Wayne. A Metropolitan Opera star, an Apollo astraunaut, and two journalists are among the prominent Wayne natives; read about them here!

1/18/04: Some new graphics, including green & blue links on all the pages as well as new "Your Town" and "Sections" graphics on the front page.

1/16/04: "Your Town" columns now up to date. The latest ones added are from 1950 (going along with their publication here on the 54th anniversary of their publication in The Suburban). The columns from 1949 are on a separate page; from now on each year will have its own page, considering the long length of those pages.

1/15/04: Added a few "Your Town" columns. They will catch up very soon.

1/13/04: New front page design, which makes this version 3.0. The older versions will be seen in the upcoming site history section. Plus: new main logo design, and the title of the site is now "Wayne History Online" instead of "The Wayne History Website." More huge new updates on the way! In the meantime, let me know what you think: gprichar@andrew.cmu.edu

11/23/03: 4 new pictures; beginning to update title graphics on some pages.

11/22/03: 26 new pictures added, mostly in the Estates section, but also in Churches, Schools and the Main Intersection.

11/21/03: Added a few new pictures to both the Anthony Wayne and Business sections. Also updated the content of the business section, taking out the pictures featured in the newer Main Intersection page.

11/18/03: Fixed a few Photoshop graphics that for some reason did not work in Internet Explorer. They somehow did work in Safari, so I didn't catch them until now. They are in the corner section and the P&W end-of-the-line map.

9/18/03: 20 new high-quality photos of Walmarthon on the estates page.

8/29/03: Addition of P&W timetable from 1942 to P&W page.

8/28/03: The P&W page is now completely redone. All new 1300-word writeup about the history of the railroad, with an emphasis on Wayne and Strafford. Also in this page: a new map showing the evolution of the end of the line at Strafford.

8/26/03: "Your Town and My Town" updated; sorry about the delay, you can expect weekly updates in that section starting again in October. There was a gap in "Your Town" columns between August and October of 1949 because Mrs. Patterson suffered from a "serious illness." In keeping up with posting articles on the anniversary of their publication, I will continue to post reprints in October. Also: New news item and weekly picture. Once again, the "Picture of the week" will become much more weekly now that the summer's over...

7/14/03: 2 huge new sections: The Wayne Business Block and Wayne's Main Intersection.

4/18/03: 14 new pictures in the Radnor Schools section, including many architectural renderings of the Grammar School.

4/16/03: New section on the Anthony Wayne Theatre. I have also started to begin improving the site's graphic design, starting with the title logo on the Theatre page.

4/10/03: P&W page updated, with new vintage pictures as well as 13 pictures of what the abandoned rail line looks like today.

4/09/03: The Opera House page updated, with a new format as well as new detailed information about the 1914 fire and cornerstone.

4/03/03: Significant update to the Radnor Schools section, including new pictures and dates for each High School building.

4/01/03: New search function added to the home page! Now you can search for any word relating to Wayne on the site. The search also includes content on all other waynepa.com pages.

3/31/03: New section: "Your Town and My Town," which features reprints of a famous newspaper column from over 50 years ago about the history of Wayne. Also, a new "Wayne History News" title, based on the design of the "Wayne Gazette" masthead of 1872.

3/14/03: A couple new pictures, as well as a new writeup of the Radnor Presbyterian Church, in Churches.

3/13/03: New page: The Wayne Lithographed Map, reproduced in two formats; unabridged and labeled.

3/11/03: Additions to the movies page, including almost 20 shots from TAPS.

2/24/03: The builders and architects page has been drastically redone, with more profiles and updated information.

2/22/03: Huge updates to all the postcard pages. They now include "then and now" comparison pictures. I have gone out to the actual locations of where the postcards were photographed and took pictures of the sites today. Also: a new top logo (with a shadow!).

2/8/03: New page: Wayne in the Movies. Wayne has actually been featured in several movies. Be sure to check out this interesting new section.

2/1/03: New page: The Radnor Cricket Club, which profiles the club which operated in North Wayne around the turn of the 20th Century.