Nearest cities: Conshohocken borough, PA (0.9 miles ), Bridgeport borough, PA (1.7 miles ), Plymouth Meeting, PA (1.8 miles ), Bryn Mawr, PA (1.8 miles ), King of Prussia, PA (1.9 miles ), Norristown borough, PA (1.9 miles ), Radnor Township, PA (2.0 miles ), Haverford College, PA (2.1 miles ).
Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
Back to Online Encyclopedia Index. The author of the first known work of African American literature (the poem âBars Fightâ), Lucy Terry Prince was kidnapped in Africa as an infant and sold into slavery in Rhode Island. At the age of five, she became the property of Captain Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts.