A Growing List of Links
history and preservation resources on the web

Philadelphia Telephone Exchange Names a list of present-day 3-digit phone exchanges and what they used to be called (remember when "382" was "EVergreen 2"?)

Preserve Net

American Association of State and Local History

Preservation Web

National Trust for Historic Preservation homepage

National Park Service

What is a National Historic Landmark?

• National Archives and Records Administration homepage. Many nice images!
• National Register of Historic Places homepage.
  • National Register Information System. Look up historic sites by state and county.
    NOTE:If you do this for Philadelphia, think before clicking on your "print" icon, because you will get 28 pages of results!
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania homepage.
  • Philadelphia neighborhood history research tools available at the HSP.
• Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
• Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
• University City Historical Society website (you're already at the UCHS website, but just in case you're printing out this page...) .
• Philadelphia history (especially West Philadelphia), a special bibliography prepared by Lauris Olson of the Van Pelt Library Reference Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Links related to historic preservation, particularly in Philadelphia (compiled by former UCHS member Roberta Dougherty)
• Arden Press, an online publisher of books about Philadelphia history.

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