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        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
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      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
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      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
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    • 2020
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
      • Clouded Title 2018
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
    • 2013
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
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    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020 - Interlocutors
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
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hello@streetroad.org
610 869 4712

725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

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7000 Acres –
a residents' history of Londonderry Township  

5/21 - 7/30/2016

Opening reception
5/21/2016, 1-7p


Closing reception 
7/16/2016, 1-7p


Follow the exhibition’s developments on Instagram @7000acres :
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With the help of the Londonderry Township Historical Committee, Street Road organized this exhibition about the history of our roughly 7000-acre township in Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. A participatory work, the project centers on the collection of memorabilia and artifacts.

All township residents were invited to contribute items. Their personal stories and items were displayed alongside a broader history taking in sites such as the Daleville Store, St. Malachi’s Catholic Church, and Derry Meeting, as well as European settlement, pre-colonialism First Nations (in particular the Leni Lenape), and earlier, pre-human settlement. The project is conscious of its own title as an arbitrary and problematic but nonetheless evocative organizing principal.


Items were displayed in a traditional installation, where visitors can view them in a physical setting; but are also reiterated online, at @7000acres, where the collection will have a longer duration, and where anyone who connects to a particular artifact can comment, respond, like or link to it, and can add their own hashtags, actions that parallel those of the traditional archivist.

The project thus proposes social media as an explicitly non-objective and self-consciously collaborative alternative to traditional archival methods, and as a unique tool for expanding the definition and influence of community and regional identity in the 21st century. A continually evolving platform, social media's contemporary popularity and global reach contrasts with simplified definitions of regional identity, prompting fresh engagement and reflection. As a multilayered exhibition 7000 Acres aims to provoke dialogue around our understandings of the idea of community and to consider evolving concepts of place and its impact on individual identity today.
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From Breou’s Farm Atlas of Chester County. 1883.
Calling Londonderry:
We are collecting materials up to and throughout the exhibition. Please get in touch at info@streetroad.org and on @7000acres on Instagram - to share stories, photos, maps, your own work, etc. Any connection to Londonderry Township, Chester County PA is reason enough to get in touch.

All materials will be handled with utmost care and either returned or donated to the Londonderry Township or Chester County Historic Society archives. To participate, or to find out more, call or email us, or simply drop by: 

Street Road Artists Space
725 Street Road
Cochranville, PA 19330
Phone - 610-869-4712
hello@streetroad.org

You can also get in touch by emailing Diane Henryson, chair of the Londonderry Historical Committee. Visit Londonderry Township's history page here. 

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Thank you to the Chester County Historical Society for supporting this project. 

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Visiting:
Winter 2020-21: please check our website before visiting as our hours are subject to change during the pandemic. Masks are required and we are observing limited numbers of people inside at one time. Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
 
HOURS

December 2020: Due to the ongoing pandemic and state guidelines, the Library and Street Road currently closed. We will continue to monitor the situation and state advisories - check back regularly before visiting. 
​Our regular hours - when we reopen:
Street Road:  Saturdays 11am - 3pm and by appointment. 
Little Free Library: Thursday 12-3, Friday 1-4, Saturday 10-3
Our Little Free Library's outdoor box is open 24/7 and regularly restocked.
Holiday 2020 hours
closed Thursday Nov 26, Thursday Dec 24, Friday Dec 25, Saturday Dec 26.

DIRECTIONS
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A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Castor
    • Rocks 2020
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Chain mail for bad communicators
  • Street Road Publishing
  • Past
    • 2020
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
      • Clouded Title 2018
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Arterial Motives (2014)
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition (2014)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia (2014)
      • Proposals of Belonging (2013)
    • 2013
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020 - Interlocutors
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog