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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- Gary Gustin is a musician, volunteer and storyteller at the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation. As he strums 18th-century tunes on his mandolin, the beautiful sounds of a ...

In 1681, William Penn wrote that Pennsylvania—a colony he’d just obtained via royal charter—would one day become “the seed of a nation.” He couldn’t have possibly known how prophetic ...

GRADYVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation has been called a "museum in the making," introducing people to what life was like on an 18th-century farm.

The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a living history farm in Newtown Square that allows visitors to experience what life was like in the 1700s.