Over the past couple of years we’ve collected and shared an extensive variety of materials covering the history of the Hopewell Valley – documents and pamphlets, maps and aerials, photos and postcards, and more. So now it’s time to add videos!
The new Video Gallery is starting out with a collection of links to videos that we have found already shared online, including a huge variety of Hopewell Valley High School productions, and videos of Reading Railroad trains passing though our area.
We welcome additional suggestions of other historically interesting videos found online – and contributions of other videos that we can host and share.
== View the new Video Gallery ==
Hopewell Valley Central High School Videos
Videos primarily from Hopewell Valley Central High School, created by television classes of Frank Flegeal, District Media Specialist. There are well over 1000 videos posted, including school, academic, sports, music, and other activities. These are posed in separate YouTube channels grouped by years / decades, covering the 1980s through 2016.
This is Hopewell Valley – 1986
Profile of the Hopewell Valley created in 1986 for the Middle States evaluators. Includes sections on the local towns and interviews with residents. (13:19)
Railroad Videos
Several clips showing views out the front of Reading trains travelling between Philadelphia and New York – in 1975 and in 1981.
And Video clips and brochures and graphics showing the the Reading’s promotion of its Crusader and Wall Street trains.
Reading RR – Phila. to Newark – 1975
First clip is Philadelphia to Newark – Summer 1975 – on the Crusader
Second clip is Reading to Philadelphia and back – June 1981
This brief section of the video shows the route from over the Delaware river bridge, through West Trenton, and along the Pennington / Glenmoore area to Hopewell.
Again, we welcome additional suggestions of other historically interesting videos that you may know of online – as well as contributions of other videos that we can host and share.
== View the new Video Gallery ==
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