Delaware Military Academy Circular, 1860. A slave state with sympathies for the South, Delaware experiences conflicting loyalties during the Civil War. The Delaware Military Academy is almost evenly divided between students from the North and...
Henry C. Robinett, Civil War 1861–1865. Robinett (DMA 1860), pictured here leads an artillery battery that successfully defends an important position at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi. In recognition, his battery is renamed “Battery...
Henry Thomason was the Valedictorian of his P.M.A. class of 1879. He was trained as a doctor and served in the US Military. In 1898, he enlisted in the Spanish American War as Major and Surgeon in the Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He served as an...
Pennsylvania Military Academy Moves to Upland, 1866. Located on the New England to Washington, D.C., railway system, the Upland-Chester area provides a more accessible location for students. The Crozer Normal School building temporarily houses the...
Electric Lights Installed, 1886. Chester’s Edison Electric Light Company installs lights in Old Main in 1886. Pictured is the Assembly Hall in Old Main, c. 1902.
PMA Mandolin and Guitar Club, c. 1890. Music plays an important role at the school, from the earliest days of the drum and bugle corps through the triumph of the PMC Marching Band when it wins first place as the best ROTC marching band at the New...
Pennsylvania Military College acquired this building in the 1940s. Located on Chestnut Street, the original Webb Hall served as a student dormitory. In 1964 the building was demolished. This building was named in honor of C. Edwin Webb.
The Webb family claims deep roots at Pennsylvania Military College. Several generations of the family graduated from PMC and continued in active support of the school. Colonel George Herbert Webb, an 1880 graduate of PMA, had leadership roles in...
PMC acquired these private homes in the 1940s, converted them to student residences, and named the complex in Captain Spang's memory. The Spang Complex was a row of large, dark buildings along East 14th Street. They were demolished in 1979.
