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Walter Elmer Schofield was an American Impressionist landscape and marine painter. Although he never lived in New Hope or Bucks County, Schofield is regarded as one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.
Gum Springs is community in Fairfax County in Hybla Valley along Route 1. The African American community, the oldest in the county, was established in 1833 by West Ford, a freedman who had been manumitted by Hannah Bushrod Washington, in 1805. A historical marker was erected by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in 1991.
Annie S. Kemerer (1865-1951), was an art collector who founded the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania upon her death in 1951.
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- ↑ https://historicbethlehem.org/?historic-site=kemerer-museum (accessed 4/3/22)
- ↑ https://www.jacobswyper.com/projects/kemerer-museum-of-decorative-arts/ (accessed 4/3/22)
- ↑ "A legacy lives on ** Kemerer Museum's founder may have been a mystery, but the appeal of her collection reaches out to all" By Marguerite Smolen Special to The Morning Call - Freelance The Morning Call • Oct 03, 2004 https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2004-10-03-3579221-story.html