3 March 2025
Ury House Museum goes online at www.quondam.com/ury.
24 February 2025
Fred Moore informs Stephen Lauf via text (3:48 pm):
Steve - We have a conflict with May NEPHN meeting. Can we reschedule the Ury House presentation to Wed, Sept 3, 2025?
To which Stephen Lauf replies (4:03 pm):
Sure, Sept. 3, 2025 is fine. If I may ask, what's the conflict?
Fred Moore calls Stephen Lauf on the phone. The May NEPHN meeting conflict regards Jack McCarthy having to give a presentation on Poquessing Creek historical development in relation to a grant received. Furthermore, Fred tells Steve the NEPHN June 2025 field trip meeting will be at Trinity Oxford Church, which is different than Fred's intention a month earlier of potentially having the NEPHN June 2025 field trip meeting at the Medical Mission Sisters Archive. To end, Fred informs Steve the highest land elevation of Northeast Philadelphia is not at the intersection of Susquehanna Road and Ridgeway Street (228 feet), rather at the site of the water tanks along Tomlinson Road (240 feet).
Subsequently, Fred send a text to Steve (5:20 pm):
Google Earth Elevation Profile of line connecting Ury House and Tomlinson Rd Water Tanks shows Ury elevation 228 ft and Water Tanks about 263. Topo map indicates 228 at Ury and 240 near water tanks. The GE profile shows 273 ft at a point between the two, off Darlington Ave between Welsh and Allburger. The highest elevation I found on Google Earth was 290ft in that area. All with questionable accuracy.
Lauf is immediately suspicious of Moore's motives in all that Moore has told him, largely that it's all Moore's antagonistic reaction to Lauf's belief that Oxford Avenue and Huntingdon Pike are Lenni Lenape infrastructure still in use, and that this particular piece of Lenni Lenape infrastructure played (and still plays) a significant role in the history of the land where Ury House once stood. (see 28 January 2025)
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