Bob Wilhelm’s Q&A

For FAH volunteers who have worked on one or more of the collection’s Stanleys, it is learned early on that

The image below was broadly circulated in the Diamond State a century ago as a proposal for a Delaware roadway.

During Steamin’ Days and private tours, we often tell visitors that laid out before them is the evolution of the

On occasion a visitor to Auburn Heights brings with them an item they no longer wish to keep but surmise

Tom Marshall left the Friends of Auburn Heights with a rich history of the Auburn Valley Railroad as detailed in

T. Clarence Marshall took an interest in motorized carriages and specifically steam carriages in the early 1900s, becoming a dealer

The attic of the Marshall Steam Museum became a storehouse for larger household items that three generations of Marshalls no

In the 1870s, U.S. mail from Hockessin traveled by the Wilmington & Western Rail Road to Wilmington, Delaware, as Wilmington’s

Since the early beginnings of the Marshall Steam Team and eventually Friends of Auburn Heights, Tom Marshall told us of

The small planthopper pictured below is found throughout Europe, Russia, China, and Northern Africa. First described in 1839, it is

While the exact origin of Auburn as the name for the northern portion of Auburn Valley State Park is undocumented,

In doing some recent research, we came across the image below from 1935. While most railroads did something similar, the