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Those bastards in Limerick. I have no pretty words for Limerick Township, Montgomery County, PA.

I got the call this morning and half an hour ago this was posted on Facebook:

190 years of history

7 years of battles

4 hours to be erased

Today, the Hood Mansion was torn down. We were able to rescue the date stone and a few interior pieces – the rest will end up in a landfill.

We were given less than 24 hours notice of the permit being filed – this comes after the property was recently sold yet again to another shell corporation based out of the Bronx.

It will be replaced with a data center warehouse – yet to be officially approved. More on that later.

All of us here at EPPS have worked tirelessly since 2017 to save this incredible piece of American history on a shoestring budget. This is a tragic failure in our country to continue to allow pieces of our shared past to be erased for corporate interests that contribute nothing to our sense of place and community. Preservationists aren’t magicians, and it takes many parties working together to try and save what we can. Unfortunately it’s difficult if not impossible to fight the corporate machine.

We can rest easy knowing we gave it our best shot up until the very end, but as a great friend and mentor of mine once said about the field of preservation:

“You’ll lose more than you save”

Thank you to everyone who has supported us in this fight for many years, and a heartfelt apology to the Hood Family, whose contributions to our society clearly didn’t matter enough to the powers that be.

Please stay tuned to our pages for an additional press release.

Thank you,

Tyler Schumacher

President & Founder

Eastern Pennsylvania Preservation Society

This is the greed that drives it:

Data center zoning being adopted in Limerick

So hopefully now the data center and environmental activists wake the hell up about what is happening in Limerick. Thus far they have been strangely silent given the environmental impacts.

Congratulations Limerick Township you feckless bunch of nitwits. You have just taken a step closer to making your area like Louden County, Virginia and all it entails. Hope the realtors who brokered these deals choke on the commissions.