A Story of Ecological Change: Behmerwald Nursery in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Faculty Mentor
Patrick Hurley
Course
ENV-366 Ecological Change in Historical Perspective
Files
Link to Story Map
Description
Between 1894 and 2017, Schwenksville and the immediate surrounding area, including Behmerwald Nursery, has slowly changed from a landscape of majority rain-fed farmland to a mixed settlement. This Story Map utilizes oral histories, archival documents and geospatial data to tell the story of these changes to the local community.
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Keywords
Schwenksville, Behmerwald Nursery, agriculture, residential development, Perkiomen river, housing, open space, forests
Disciplines
Agriculture | Environmental Studies | Forest Management | Geographic Information Sciences | Urban Studies and Planning
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Kacie; Warnick, Emma; Bookman, Kyle; Swartz, Breanna; White, Amanda; and Donnelly, Bill, "A Story of Ecological Change: Behmerwald Nursery in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania" (2019). Landscape Ethnographies of Southeastern Pennsylvania. 2.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/landscape_ethnographies/2
