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Walnut Hill, now part of Lorimer Park in Montgomery County, was originally part of a land grant from William Penn to William Stanley in the late 1600s. It was later purchased by Edmond McVeagh and his son built the Walnut Hill mansion in 1740. Walnut Hill was then owned by the Fenton family from 1816 to 1915 when it was purchased by George Horace Lorimer. When Lorimer died in 1937, he willed the grounds to Montgomery County to create Lorimer Park, with the old Walnut Hill mansion as the headquarters house,

Author

Richard Castor

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