Schedule
OcTrolleyFest 2026 will begin at the Darby Library (1001 Main Street) at 10:00 AM for introductions, a few Trolley Songs and then we will board a van for a tour through some 400 years of Darby History including visits to the site of 1695 Millcat Race or Trench Digged Thru Blunston's Meadow, John Drew's Garage, and more including:
Eden Cemetery resting place for heroic people who risked everything to be free such as William Still, Octavius Catto, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Caroline LeCount and many others
Birth place of comedian William Claude Dukenfield (W.C Fields)
Woodburne Plateau on the Heights of Darby
Site of Pennsylvania's first water-powered mill built by Swedish Governor Johannes Printz in 1645
and much more.
People can also signup for the later 1:00 pm PCC (Streamlined vintage trolley) for a ride to Bartrams Garden....
(First come-first serve....space may be limited).
We will also celebrate our oldest form of transportation (walking or "Shanks Mare) including
The Great Minquas Path crossed over Land that belonged to the Bartram family (now Eden Cemetery and the Woodburne Plateau) 80 miles, connecting the Susquehannock to the Dutch, Swedish, and later English fur trading posts.
We will also celebrate the Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) which passed through Darby on the way from Newport, Rhode Island 800 miles to the final victory at Yorktown ending the War for American Independence. Darby is a "Victory Town along the route.
We also celebrate the freedom seekers and helpers on the Underground Railroad and the people, black and white who struggled for human rights and dignity.
The struggle still goes on today
